My Ever Changing Literate Emacs Configuration

Quick Look
Motivation
- Inspirations, and sometimes outright copy/paste sources
Initial Bits and Bobs
- Initial setup
- Appearance
Package Management

Quick Look

Just the usual flex of doing as little editing as possible in a screenshot.

Motivation

Over a surprisingly short amount of time my emacs configuration has become quite a mess. Almost every visit to it requiring some digging to get to the relevant configuration. So as a result I've decided to make a literate configuration. Mostly for my own mental house keeping. However, if some poor soul reads this and finds it useful, then that's a bonus.

Inspirations, and sometimes outright copy/paste sources

Progfolio's Config

Initial Bits and Bobs

Before anything else the appearance, and some performance settings need to be tweaked as they can cause issues if done mid-start.

Initial setup

The LSP packages perform better with plists so an environment variable needs to be set to inform them that this is intended. I've also removed default package handling as I intend to use another package manager. Lastly I suppress some compilation warnings.

(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(setq inhibit-default-init nil)

(setq native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors nil)
(setenv "LSP_USE_PLISTS" "true")
(setq lsp-use-plists t)

Appearance

I like a minimal look, so I disable menu bars, tool bars, all the bars. I have Emacs loading as a blank slate with only the scratch buffer open.

(defvar default-file-name-handler-alist file-name-handler-alist)
(setq file-name-handler-alist nil)

(push '(menu-bar-lines . 0) default-frame-alist)
(push '(tool-bar-lines . 0) default-frame-alist)
(push '(vertical-scroll-bars) default-frame-alist)

(setq server-client-instructions nil)

(when (and (fboundp 'startup-redirect-eln-cache)
           (fboundp 'native-comp-available-p)
           (native-comp-available-p))
  (startup-redirect-eln-cache
   (convert-standard-filename
    (expand-file-name  "var/eln-cache/" user-emacs-directory))))

(setq frame-inhibit-implied-resize t)
(advice-add #'x-apply-session-resources :override #'ignore)
(setq desktop-restore-forces-onscreen nil)
(setq ring-bell-function #'ignore
      inhibit-startup-screen t)

(push '(font . "Victor Mono-13") default-frame-alist)
(set-face-font 'default "Victor Mono-13")
(set-face-font 'variable-pitch "Victor Mono-13")

(copy-face 'default 'fixed-pitch)

(provide 'early-init)
;;; early-init.el ends here

;; Local Variables:
;; no-byte-compile: t
;; no-native-compile: t
;; no-update-autoloads: t
;; End:

Package Management

I am using Elpaca as my package manager. I've found it to be quite quick, and easy to use.

Elpaca supports use-package so hook that up, and add a use-feature macro that adds a similar construct for configuring already loaded emacs packages and features.

<<elpaca-boilerplate>>

(defmacro use-feature (name &rest args)
  "Like `use-package' but accounting for asynchronous installation.
  NAME and ARGS are in `use-package'."
  (declare (indent defun))
  `(use-package ,name
     :ensure nil
     ,@args))

(elpaca elpaca-use-package
  (require 'elpaca-use-package)
  (elpaca-use-package-mode)
  (setq use-package-always-ensure t))

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