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misc configuration files

A small collection of my configuration files and Emacs/Vim plugins

Tango terminal colors are recommended with a dark background. Unicode is used, so hopefully your terminal supports it.

See the images directory for an example of what some of the stuff looks like.

Bootstrap the config

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dakrone/dakrone-dotfiles/master/bootstrap | zsh

ZSH randomness:

Put important commands in ~/.important_commands and they'll always be in your backwards search history.

Instructions for using the Emacs stuff (requires Emacs 24):

1. Move the .emacs.d directory to ~/.emacs.d
2. Run emacs

Much package installing will commence. If there are errors, just keep running it until all the packages are installed.

You might need to start it and run package-list-packages to update the package list the first time.

Notes

My emacs config uses mu4e for email, ERC for IRC, twittering-mode for twitter and all kinds of goodies for clojure development. It requires manually calling the method mail in order to start the mail functionality. For IRC I use ERC, which can be started with the start-irc function.

All of the settings are in ~/.emacs.d/settings.org, and are tangled and then loaded from init.el in the same directory. This (hopefully) makes reading the configuration a bit easier.

I recommend you install ag for searching also and gpg for crypto stuff to get the full benefit.

Emacs themes

I my custom Emacs theme called dakrone-theme for dark background, and leuven for light-colored backgrounds (working outside).

To swap between them, change the line at the beginning of ~/.emacs.d/settings.org that looks like:

;; Currently using dark-colored theme
;;(defvar my/background 'light)
(defvar my/background 'dark)

Polipo + pdnsd caching proxy

Loosely based on:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pdnsd
• http://nakkaya.com/2009/05/07/speeding-up-your-net-browsing-with-pdnsd-domain-name-caching-on-mac-os-x/

Steps:

• install polipo
• install pdnsd
• copy polipo.conf where it's needed, change the data directory and log file location
• copy pdnsd.conf where it's needed, create the directories needed (running pdnsd will complain about where they are if they don't already exist)
• set DNS to 127.0.0.1
• set HTTP proxy to 127.0.0.1, port 8118

Privoxy

There's also some stuff for privoxy in here. Proxies all over the place!