Emacs is a free (as in freedom) open source text editor.
This repository contains my .emacs file which is the main config file for
Emacs.
I have tried to keep my .emacs file as clean and well-documented as
possible, but I have to admit I am not that knowledgeable in Lisp and so my
.emacs contains code that I shamelessly copied without understanding.
As is obvious from the large amount of evil bindings, I come from
Vim. After a stint of Spacemacs (which I didn’t like) I switched
to Emacs completely solely for org-mode and I don’t regret a thing.
Both Vim and Emacs have great features so why not take the best of
both of worlds?
Instead of having you trudge through my whole .emacs I would like to show you
some pieces of my configuration file that you might find interesting.
Bind C-x v to open .emacs
;; Bind =C-x v= to open ~/.emacs, remnant from my Vim times where
;; =<Leader> v= would open my ~/.vimrc
(global-set-key (kbd "\C-xv") (lambda () (interactive)
(find-file "~/.emacs")
(message "Opened: %s" (buffer-name))))For some reason C-u (which is half a page up in Vim-speak) doesn’t work
by default. I think this has to do with Emacs using C-u as an
important pre-fix. This fixes that
;; Makes C-u scroll up (see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14302171/ctrlu-in-emacs-when-using-evil-key-bindings)
(setq evil-want-C-u-scroll t)And possibly the most important one is this one: Vim-like paragraph movements don’t work out of the box. This creates that Vim-like paragraph feel which we all know and love
;; Make evil paragraphs behave like vim paragraphs
;; See: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38596/make-evil-paragraphs-behave-like-vim-paragraphs
(with-eval-after-load 'evil
(defadvice forward-evil-paragraph (around default-values activate)
(let ((paragraph-start (default-value 'paragraph-start))
(paragraph-separate (default-value 'paragraph-separate)))
ad-do-it)))