Emacs Docker Image

Introduction

This image is based on Archlinux.It contains these primary tools (except provided by alpine):

• bash
• git
• curl
• openssh-client
• python
• yay (For Arch User Repository)
• gcc
• make
• emacs
• shadowsocks-rust (Used for proxy)
• proxychains-ng (A tool helps you use shadowsocks conveniently)
• other optional tools

Build

Clone this repository to your disk. Go into the directory and run this command:

docker build -t jinwuzhao/emacs .

Usage

Copy shell script emacs from this repository to one of directories in environment variable $PATH.
Run command emacs . to open project with current directory. You can also use other relative path or absolute path instead.
If you need network proxy, use -p option:

emacs . -p

Note this command will copy sscfg.json from local config directory to the path /etc/shadowsocks/config.json of container and copy proxychains.conf to /etc/proxychains.conf. Then launch the ss-local(shadowsocks-libev client) with config sscfg.json and run emacs by proxychains4(proxychains-ng) with config proxychains.conf.
This repository contains sscfg.json and proxychains.conf sample. You can modify them as you need.
By default, the detach-keys of docker is ctrl+p,ctrl+q and it will conflicts with the move key of emacs. To solve this problem, you can modify the detach-keys to another value such as ctrl+^,ctrl+q.You can modify the docker config file at ~/.docker/config.json:

{
	"detachKeys": "ctrl-^,ctrl-q"
}

If you run it with X11 environment and want to share clipboards between host and container, you can install emacs package xclip.el:

# install xclip.el
M-x package-install RET xclip
M-x xclip-mode

You may add xclip-mode into .emacs file and commit a layer on this image.