Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

#1

Post by grizzydot » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 8:32 PM UTC

Are there any key bindings or modes that have been especially useful for you? If so, what are they?

Cheers.

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

#2

Post by tjpick » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 9:09 PM UTC

org-mode.

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

#3

Post by zck » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 9:29 PM UTC

My .emacs, which is commented, is located at http://github.com/zck/emacs/blob/master/.emacs . I need to update it and move it over to bitbucket, though.

Specifically, my favorite things are show-paren-mode, ido-mode, and rebinding C-, and C-. to move back and forward between windows.

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

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Post by jcsalterego » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:03 PM UTC

I went .emacs bankrupt this summer.

gist.el, powershell-mode, yaml-mode, org-mode are a few I've taken out for brevity.

Otherwise, a few of these are emacs23 specific:

  ;; syntax highlighting
  (global-font-lock-mode 1)
  
  ;; add .emacs.d to load path
  (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d" load-path))
  
  ;; nethack
  (add-hook 'nethack-mode-hook (lambda () (linum-mode 'nil)))
  (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/nethack" load-path))
  (autoload 'nethack "nethack" "Play Nethack." t)
  (setq nethack-program "/opt/local/bin/nethack")
  
  ;; 4 spaces in objective-c
  (add-hook 'objc-mode-hook
            (lambda ()
              (setq tab-width nil)
              (setq c-basic-offset 4)))
  
  ;; straight to *scratch* buffer please
  (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
  
  ;; use old navigation for line movement
  (setq line-move-visual nil)

  ;; linum mode
  (require 'linum)
  (global-linum-mode 1)
  (add-hook 'linum-before-numbering-hook
  	  (lambda () (setq linum-format "%d ")))

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

#5

Post by kirubakaran » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:09 PM UTC

http://github.com/ki/my-dot-emacs/raw/master/dot-emacs.txt

plus

http://lisp.pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MRbccMG4

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

#6

Post by lg » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:11 PM UTC

for anyone who uses erc on emacs 23 and gets the weird "selecting deleted buffer" error, adding

  (setq Buffer-menu-use-frame-buffer-list nil)

makes it work.

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

#7

Post by access_denied » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:12 PM UTC

making org-mode the standard mode for a new buffer/file. a custom word-count util, another one for switching frame-dimensions. color-themes, session management, a few custom key-bindings.

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

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Post by drbaskin » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:15 PM UTC

I use emacs mostly for LaTeX editing, so most of my .emacs sets up macros to make it easy to insert greek letters with a keystroke. (For some reason, I really hate using LaTeX macros to write shortcuts for these.)

Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:26 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

#10

Post by daemianmack » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:27 PM UTC

Funny, about an hour ago I finally broke down and remapped Ctrl+w to backward-kill-word[1] after re-reading Yegge's Effective Emacs, and you've just reminded me to push the commit to my fork of emacs-starter-kit, which is a great way to get a core set of functionality. Works best if you're tyrannical about keeping it up to date, which I mostly am.

http://github.com/daemianmack/emacs-starter-kit/

Favorite two most recent additions: pyflakes/pylint for Python, and rainbow-mode for CSS.

[1] Having backward-kill-word a two-finger-stroke, instead of the two-handed alt+Backspace, is great! On the other hand, it turns out I kill-region a lot more than I thought I did, so that's a little weird.