modi .emacs.d

My emacs setup is tested to work only with emacs 25.1 and newer versions. If you are on older versions, I would recommend that you upgrade to the latest available stable version.

On the other hand, I keep my emacs updated to the /latest Development version/. So my config will definitely work with that if you too are doing the same.

Using my emacs setup

You can start using my emacs setup by following these steps:

1. Download the latest update script for this config

   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/master/force_update_emacsd.sh > force_update_emacsd.sh
   chmod 744 force_update_emacsd.sh
       

   This script git clones my config and all sub-modules that I rely on (mine + others).

2. Run the script (review it first if you like) using ./force_update_emacsd.sh ~/.emacs.d if you want to download this config to your ~/.emacs.d/ directory. If the download location you specify already exists, a backup of it is created first.
3. Edit the =user-emacs-directory= var in the just downloaded =init.el= if needed BEFORE starting emacs using this config.

   If you ran ./force_update_emacsd.sh ~/.emacs.d in Step 2 above, you will not need to change that variable. But if you did ./force_update_emacsd.sh <MY-EMACSD-DIR>, you will need to change the value of user-emacs-directory in <MY-EMACSD-DIR>/init.el to <MY-EMACSD-DIR>.

4. Start emacs as usual if you did not change the download location in Step 2. If you DID change the download location to <MY-EMACSD-DIR>, you will need to do \emacs -Q -l <MY-EMACSD-DIR>/init.el.

That’s it!

The first start will take a couple of minutes as it auto-installs all packages in the my-packages list defined in the init.el.

Few notes

• Few setup files have setup done as per my personal tastes and needs:
  • setup-files/setup-misc.el
  • setup-files/setup-mode-line.el
  • setup-files/setup-registers.el
• If you want to change the default theme, font size, etc, you would want to edit setup-files/setup-visual.el
• Any of the variables or global minor modes set in my config can be overridden in setup-personal.el which you need to create in the directory pointed by the variable user-personal-directory.
• You can also choose to override certain variables in the very beginning of the init.el by customizing the variables in a setup-var-overrides.el file placed in user-personal-directory. You can refer to an example of this file here. During the first time setup, copy the setup-var-overrides-EXAMPLE.el file to setup-var-overrides.el in the same directory.
• setup-editing.el has interesting elisp snippets that I created + borrowed over time for functions related to general editing.

Key points

• Use of my minor mode modi-mode to enable my custom key-bindings. Doing so allows me to force override my bindings in all major and minor modes. If I ever need to try out the default emacs bindings, I can simply disable modi-mode by doing M-x modi-mode. It is enabled globally by default.
• Use of use-package in load all packages for faster load times.
• Use of bind-keys allows me to review my custom bindings in a single buffer by doing M-x describe-personal-keybindings.
• Certain packages will be loaded only if you have the associated applications installed.
  • ag
  • ctags
  • global (gtags)
  • git
  • matlab
  • aspell or hunspell
  • ps2pdf
  • xelatex

Feedback

I am looking forward to suggestions, corrections.

Thanks!