.emacs.d

My personal Emacs configuration, using straight.el and use-package for third-party package management and setup. Straight in particular allows for some extreme optimization — current emacs-init-time on an M1 Max is ~170ms for terminal and under 300ms for GUI! ⚡️

Configuration is split up into modules which can be enabled or disabled in the core/sm-modules.el file. Personal settings such as note-taking directories are kept in core/sm-personal.el. Anything private can be placed in ~/.private/elisp/ — files placed there will be loaded during initialization.

Setup

Clone this repository into your home directory as .emacs.d.

git clone git://github.com/sjrmanning/.emacs.d.git ~/.emacs.d

...then run Emacs. On the first run, Emacs will install and compile any packages handled by the package manager, including native-compilation via libgccjit if supported.

Emacs version

I’m using native-compilation (--with-native-comp) and Emacs 29 with treesitter support, so there is some configuration using -ts-mode for some major modes.

Fonts and Theme

Fonts used are defined in core/sm-appearance.el. A custom version of Solarized (light) is used by default, but theme can also be changed in the sm-appearance.el file.

External requirements

There are a few cool external tools, mainly around code intelligence, syntax checking and auto-completion, that make this setup work a lot better, but obviously they need to be installed to work.

Editor-wide

• brew install ripgrep for rg for blazing fast search via C-s and C-S.
• brew install editorconfig for parsing .editorconfig files in projects.
• brew install aspell --with-lang-en for spell-checking in writing/commit/text modes.

Language Servers

• This config uses the built-in (Emacs 29+) eglot to provide auto-completion and other code intelligence features for various programming languages. Pre-reqs differ by language, and some will handle their prerequisites themselves (lsp-python-ms for example will configure its own server).

  A list of available language server implementations can be found here.

Terminals

• vterm requires some compilation on first-use. You’ll need cmake and libvterm. Both can be installed with brew.

Ruby

• gem install rubocop for style-checking via flycheck.

Markdown

• There are a few options for previewing and compiling Markdown documents. I’m currently using pandoc, installed via brew install pandoc. You can also use discount or markdown, you’ll just need to update markdown-command.