title: GNU Emacs categories: emacs ...
I (/who/astynax) use GNU Emacs for anything, it is "the true one editor" for me: programming, note-taking, GTD, Web-bookmarks - Emacs helps me doing it. The main reason to use Emacs is its extensibility and the ability to bend an editor to the shape I like and find comfortable. Someone tweaks her bike or a car buys and replaces some old parts with new ones. I am doing the same with my editor and I like this process! :)
You can find it here with other /dotfiles.
The capstone of my config is the use-package: this package configures all other packages and even downloads them if some of them aren't present in the system yet.
Alternatively, one can use straight.el to install packages from their sources. This is even more "declarative and predictable" way to manage packages but I did'n try it yet.
One can use Emacs as a general purpose scripting language.
For example, one can integrate emacs-server, /Rofi & /mpv to listen Internet-radio and be able to choose a station using GUI — cool stuff!
The Org mode - the main (and even the only for someone) reason to use Emacs. It is an IDE for notes, TODOs, agendas, contacts, writing, research. If I need to produce a good portion of text I am writing it in Org and then export it into the target format (Markdown, HTML, etc).
Org babel I use to do some /Literate programming or just to play with some HTTP APIs. For the later task I use restlient.el+ob-restclient.el.
projectile - adds a project level to your buffers
Magit is the ultimate way to do /Git and to learn it in the process. Just a must-have.
Some great resources about Magit:
- Magit deep dive (EmacsConf 2019)
- Introduction to MAGIT by Protesilaous Stavrou
Yep, sometimes you need to debug your config. There are two ways:
(setq debug-on-error t)at the beginning of your.emacs-debug-initin command line
Also, you can edit the config using "quick mode": emacs -q .emacs or emacs -Q .emacs. Or you can just use /Vim: vim .emacs ;)
- awesome-emacs
- emacs-from-scratch, "An example of a fully custom Emacs configuration developed live on YouTube!"
- YouTube: Conquering Kubernetes with Emacs, a great talk about using of tabulated-list-mode and transient commands
- LibrePlanet 2022: Living in freedom with GNU Emacs, a nice talk about Emacs and software freedom
- Moldable Emacs, a step towards sustainable software, an introductory talk into the moldable-emacs as a platform for the Moldable Development
- "Emacs DWIM: do what I mean"