This is a simple Emacs init file which aims to be short and easily understandable. It sets up Emacs to look like a modern text editor (with a dark theme and new icons, mode line and font) and adds some IDE-like functionality (code completion with a drop-down menu and a tree file explorer). It also installs modes for coding in R, LaTeX and Markdown and sets some additional options (a package for git and a new location for saving Emacs' backup files (the automatically created ones that start with ~)).
My aim in building this configuration was to see how much set up was needed to get Emacs to look and act (in the basic respects that I find most helpful) like a modern editor such as Atom or Sublime. As you can see by looking at this init.el file, a new theme, font and a few other packages are all that is needed.
I have recently started to use Evil mode and I have found Vim-style keybindings to be much more ergonomic than the Emacs default. This config uses Evil by default but it can be easily switched off commenting the relevant lines towards the end of the init file.
This configuration uses the following packages, listed here by category:
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Code completion:
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Language support:
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Aesthetics:
- all-the-icons (icons)
- DOOM Themes (main theme)
- doom-modeline (mode line)
- Treemacs (tree file browser)
- org-bullets (shows
org-modebullets as UTF-8 characters)
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Misc:
- use-package (improves the init file package configuration)
- Magit (for Git)
- Evil and evil-magit (Vim-style keybindings)
Simply place the init.el file in your .emacs.d folder (in a Unix system this will be located in your home directory by default). If you already have an init.el file in your Emacs folder, or an equivalent .emacs file in your home directory, you must delete/overwrite these.
Note that to use the Fira Code font for code and Source Sans Pro for org-mode text you must install them on your system in a separate step.
