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This config is highly customized and no good for a beginner. Even for emacs users this config is probably only interesting in specific points they can then copy to their own config. However along the way I found some nice tutorials on emacs in general which I’d like to point out:

About this repository

Started to maintain my emacs-config here on github when I noticed there were more than a handful of things I wanted to configure about emacs, and it was too annoying to set them each time by hand when switching the environment.

🏆 Things I am proud to have accomplished since my first commit here:

  • I use “use-package” for automatic package installation.
  • My config-files are written in org-mode
  • The different environments I work with emacs in are typed (work / home / laptop / uni). Depending on the environment I load different packages. I tell emacs which environment I am in by setting the system variable “SYSENV”.
  • The overall file-structure is not a mess

🌵 Things I struggle with:

  • Indenting and line-wrapping in org-mode since recent org update
  • Keeping all my org configuration consistent
  • Minor things about my typescript and rust setup

The ongoing debate about the right coding-system

Right now I use the unix coding system everywhere, this might be subject to change though.

Pros:

  • Its easier to copy stuff into the terminal from for example an org-file without weird line-ending interactions
  • Makes org-babel codeblocks work in the first place on linux systems, otherwise they cannot execute
  • I edit org-files from linux and on windows, which due to org-babel requiring linux line-endings makes deciding for either one of them a necessity. Making such a decision globally of course also affects the coding-style of this config which I want to share with others.
  • There is no comfortable way to convert line-endings without me noticing it, another reason why I have to decide for one of the two

Cons:

  • Editing my configs or files from the Windows Default Editor doesn’t work
  • My colleagues are not able to visit my config files since they dont care and only use the dos-coding system

Research enabled by this config

I’m writing my bachelor-thesis with this config. In order to do that i included quite alot of config settings into my emacs config. An alternative to this would be downloading an emacs distribution / config that is designed just for writing scientifical papers, like Scimax.

Configuration that specifically enables me to do that is tagged with “research”. On linux i had to install packages ontop of simple configuration inside emacs:

sudo apt-get install ess
sudo apt-get install texlive #required for pdf rendering (and more?)
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra #stop the pdf-export from failing due to missing package "wrapfig.sty"
sudo apt-get install r-base #enables the creation of graphs from emacs

For Windows these additional steps are required to make the pdf export work:

  • Download “pdflatex” from here: https://miktex.org/download
    • Latex Live is an alternative
  • Update its packages using the miktex update manager
  • Install the wrapfig package
  • Install the url package
  • Add the binary directory of miktex to the environment variables and restart emacs
  • Try the export!

The structure of these config files

org-init.el
bootstraps the initialization through org-mode
init.org
customizes the default emacs behaviour
my-org-usepackages.org
adds and customizes packages
elisp-goodies.el
some of my custom functions and work-in-progress

Special key-bindings i use

It is kind of a stretch to keep reaching for the Ctrl-Key on the bottom left of the keyboard. Having pain from keep reaching to this key is also referred to as the “emacs-pinky”.

An idea to mitigate this problem is to make caps-lock a second ctrl key.

On Ubuntu this can be done using the gnome-tweak-tool.

Finally, reminders to myself

Remember to set the git author correctly when on different laptops

git config user.name "flyck"
git config user.email mymail.com

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