Welcome!
This is my personal Emacs configuration. I tend to prefer learning how to use built-in packages for any given task. If I get a small itch to scratch, I’ll typically write my own tiny package for it. For itches too big to handle on my own I do go shopping for external packages.
There is also code I wind up writing with no itch of my own to scratch: I like reading r/emacs and writing little functions for people there. The functions I like and think I might use someday become tiny packages here. Writing small snippets for other people is probably my favorite way of learning Emacs, because it takes me down paths I don’t think I would explore on my own.
Some packages I’ve bundled separately
I intend to publish the most reusable parts of my configuration as separate packages. So far that is:
- embark
- orderless
- icomplete-vertical
- math-delimiters
- placeholder
- epithet
- completing-history
- restricto
- live-completions
Themes
For many years I kept trying Emacs themes and always went back to the default theme. I don’t understand why people don’t like the default theme, to me it is clearly better than almost all others. :)
I finally found themes I like better than the default: Protesilaos Stavrou’s modus themes!
What’s missing from this repo?
I separated the personal part of my configuration to publish this. The personal part doesn’t cover that much: email addresses and signatures, org capture templates, org agenda configuration, and the org-publish configuration for my academic website, basically. In particular most of my org mode configuration is in this public part.