My Emacs Configuration

My Emacs configuration, that I'm cheekily calling hamacs is a literate programming model heavily inspired by my recent journey into Henrik Lissner's Doom Emacs and Spacemacs. I used both extensively, but decided that I would roll my own as Emacs people tend to be control freaks (at least a little bit).

The other advantage to rolling yer own is that you may use what you add, leading to less bloat, and a more fun experience.

Why yes, feel free to steal whatever you find interesting, as sharing is what makes our community great. Notice that functions and features that I have written begin with ha-, but everything else is either stock Emacs or a package that I download using straight (see bootstrap for how) and configured with use-package (see either this introduction or this wiki page for details)… meaning that most blocks of code should work on its own. Hit me up with questions, @howardabrams. If you want to try this out, after installing Emacs, and cloning this repo, run:

./initialize

This creates ~/.emacs.d/init.el that starts the process loading the files:

bootstrap

configures straight and loads basic libraries the rest of the code depends on. It then loads the following files in order:

config

contains most of my configuration, setting up my sequence key menus, evil, etc.

display

sets up the visual aspects of an Emacs GUI, including themes, fonts and the dashboard.

org

configures the basics for org-mode formatted files. Specific features come from their own files.

org-word-processor

attempts to make Org files visually look like a word processor, including turning off the colors for headers, and instead increasing their size.

org-clipboard

automatically converting HTML from a clipboard into Org-formatted content.

org-journaling

for writing journal entries and tasks.

org-publishing

code for publishing my website, www.howardism.org.

org-sprint

functions for working with the my Org-focused sprint file.

eshell

customization and enhancement to the Emacs shell.

remoting

my interface to systems using SSH and Vterm.

email

reading email using notmuch in a Hey fashion.

feed-reader

configuration of elfeed as well as my RSS feeds.

aux-apps

optional applications, like Twitter and Telegram.

capturing-notes

my engineering notebook.

agendas

attempts to "supe-up" my task list.

irc

connection to IRC servers using rcirc and bitlbee.

passwords

code for generating passwords.

programming

configuration for all programming languages, or at least, the simple ones.

programming-elisp

additions to Emacs Lisp programming.

programming-python

configuration for working with Python and LSP.

programming-scheme

configuration for Racket.

Note: Other functions and files come from essays written on my blog. To help with this, see support/final-initialize.el file.