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README.md |
About
This is a Emacs configuration file written in org-mode
. There are a few
reasons why I wanted to do this. My .emacs.d/
was a mess, and needed a
proper clean-up. Also I like keeping all my configurations in a single
file, using org-mode
I can keep this file organized. I aim to briefly
explain all my configurations.
Configurations
Meta
Emacs can only load .el
-files. We can use C-c C-v t
to run
org-babel-tangle
, which extracts the code blocks from the current file
into a source-specific file (in this case a .el
-file).
To avoid doing this each time a change is made we can add a function to
the after-save-hook
ensuring to always tangle and byte-compile the
org
-document after changes.
(defun tangle-init ()
"If the current buffer is 'init.org' the code-blocks are
tangled, and the tangled file is compiled."
(when (equal (buffer-file-name)
(expand-file-name (concat user-emacs-directory "init.org")))
(org-babel-tangle)
(byte-compile-file (concat user-emacs-directory "init.el"))))
(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'tangle-init)
Package
Managing extensions for Emacs is simplified using package
which
is built in to Emacs 24 and newer. To load downloaded packages we
need to initialize package
.
(require 'package)
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(package-initialize)
Packages can be fetched from different mirrors, melpa is the largest archive and is well maintained.
(setq package-archives
'(("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")
("MELPA" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")))
We can define a predicate that tells us whether or not the newest version of a package is installed.
(defun newest-package-installed-p (package)
"Return true if the newest available PACKAGE is installed."
(when (package-installed-p package)
(let* ((local-pkg-desc (or (assq package package-alist)
(assq package package--builtins)))
(newest-pkg-desc (assq package package-archive-contents)))
(and local-pkg-desc newest-pkg-desc
(version-list-= (package-desc-vers (cdr local-pkg-desc))
(package-desc-vers (cdr newest-pkg-desc)))))))
Let's write a function to install a package if it is not installed or upgrades it if a new version has been released. Here our predicate comes in handy.
(defun upgrade-or-install-package (package)
"Unless the newest available version of PACKAGE is installed
PACKAGE is installed and the current version is deleted."
(unless (newest-package-installed-p package)
(let ((pkg-desc (assq package package-alist)))
(when pkg-desc
(package-delete (symbol-name package)
(package-version-join
(package-desc-vers (cdr pkg-desc)))))
(and (assq package package-archive-contents)
(package-install package)))))
Also, we will need a function to find all dependencies from a given package.
(defun dependencies (package)
"Returns a list of dependencies from a given PACKAGE."
(let* ((pkg-desc (assq package package-alist))
(reqs (and pkg-desc (package-desc-reqs (cdr pkg-desc)))))
(mapcar 'car reqs)))
The package-refresh-contents
function downloads archive descriptions,
this is a major bottleneck in this configuration. To avoid this we can
try to only check for updates once every day or so. Here are three
variables. The first specifies how often we should check for updates. The
second specifies whether one should update during the initialization. The
third is a path to a file where a time-stamp is stored in order to check
when packages were updated last.
(defvar days-between-updates 7)
(defvar do-package-update-on-init t)
(defvar package-last-update-file
(expand-file-name (concat user-emacs-directory ".package-last-update")))
The tricky part is figuring out when packages were last updated. Here is
a hacky way of doing it, using time-stamps. By adding a time-stamp to the
a file, we can determine whether or not to do an update. After that we
must run the time-stamp
-function to update the time-stamp.
(require 'time-stamp)
;; Open the package-last-update-file
(with-temp-file package-last-update-file
(if (file-exists-p package-last-update-file)
(progn
;; Insert it's original content's.
(insert-file-contents package-last-update-file)
(let ((start (re-search-forward time-stamp-start nil t))
(end (re-search-forward time-stamp-end nil t)))
(when (and start end)
;; Assuming we have found a time-stamp, we check determine if it's
;; time to update.
(setq do-package-update-on-init
(<= days-between-updates
(days-between
(current-time-string)
(buffer-substring-no-properties start end))))
;; Remember to update the time-stamp.
(when do-package-update-on-init
(time-stamp)))))
;; If no such file exists it is created with a time-stamp.
(insert "Time-stamp: <>")
(time-stamp)))
Now we can use the function above to make sure packages are installed and up to date. Here are some packages I find useful (some of these configurations are also dependent on them).
(when (and do-package-update-on-init
(y-or-n-p "Update all packages?"))
(package-refresh-contents)
(let* ((packages
'(ac-geiser ; Auto-complete backend for geiser
ac-slime ; An auto-complete source using slime completions
ace-jump-mode ; quick cursor location minor mode
auto-compile ; automatically compile Emacs Lisp libraries
auto-complete ; auto completion
elscreen ; window session manager
expand-region ; Increase selected region by semantic units
flx-ido ; flx integration for ido
ido-vertical-mode ; Makes ido-mode display vertically.
geiser ; GNU Emacs and Scheme talk to each other
haskell-mode ; A Haskell editing mode
jedi ; Python auto-completion for Emacs
js2-mode ; Improved JavaScript editing mode
magit ; control Git from Emacs
markdown-mode ; Emacs Major mode for Markdown-formatted files.
matlab-mode ; MATLAB integration with Emacs.
monokai-theme ; A fruity color theme for Emacs.
move-text ; Move current line or region with M-up or M-down
multiple-cursors ; Multiple cursors for Emacs.
org ; Outline-based notes management and organizer
paredit ; minor mode for editing parentheses
powerline ; Rewrite of Powerline
pretty-lambdada ; the word `lambda' as the Greek letter.
smex ; M-x interface with Ido-style fuzzy matching.
undo-tree)) ; Treat undo history as a tree
;; Fetch dependencies from all packages.
(reqs (mapcar 'dependencies packages))
;; Append these to the original list, and remove any duplicates.
(packages (delete-dups (apply 'append packages reqs))))
(dolist (package packages)
(upgrade-or-install-package package)))
;; This package is only relevant for Mac OS X.
(when (memq window-system '(mac ns))
(upgrade-or-install-package 'exec-path-from-shell))
(package-initialize))
Mac OS X
I run this configuration mostly on Mac OS X, so we need a couple of
settings to make things work smoothly. In the package section
exec-path-from-shell
is included (only if you're running OS X), this is
to include environment-variables from the shell. It makes useing Emacs
along with external processes a lot simpler. I also prefer using the
Command
-key as the Meta
-key.
(when (memq window-system '(mac ns))
(setq mac-option-modifier nil
mac-command-modifier 'meta
x-select-enable-clipboard t)
(run-with-idle-timer 5 nil 'exec-path-from-shell-initialize))
Require
Some features are not loaded by default to minimize initialization time,
so they have to be required (or loaded, if you will). require
-calls
tends to lead to the largest bottleneck's in a
configuration. idle-require
delays the require
-calls to a time where
Emacs is in idle. So this is great for stuff you eventually want to load,
but is not a high priority.
(require 'idle-require) ; Need in order to use idle-require
(require 'auto-complete-config) ; a configuration for auto-complete-mode
(dolist (feature
'(auto-compile ; auto-compile .el files
jedi ; auto-completion for python
matlab ; matlab-mode
ob-matlab ; org-babel matlab
ox-latex ; the latex-exporter (from org)
ox-md ; Markdown exporter (from org)
pretty-lambdada ; show 'lambda' as the greek letter.
recentf ; recently opened files
smex ; M-x interface Ido-style.
tex-mode)) ; TeX, LaTeX, and SliTeX mode commands
(idle-require feature))
(setq idle-require-idle-delay 5)
(idle-require-mode 1)
Sane defaults
These are what I consider to be saner defaults.
We can set variables to whatever value we'd like using setq
.
(setq default-input-method "TeX" ; Use TeX when toggeling input method.
doc-view-continuous t ; At page edge goto next/previous.
echo-keystrokes 0.1 ; Show keystrokes asap.
inhibit-startup-message t ; No splash screen please.
initial-scratch-message nil ; Clean scratch buffer.
ring-bell-function 'ignore ; Quiet.
undo-tree-auto-save-history t ; Save undo history between sessions.
undo-tree-history-directory-alist
;; Put undo-history files in a directory, if it exists.
(let ((undo-dir (concat user-emacs-directory "undo")))
(and (file-exists-p undo-dir)
(list (cons "." undo-dir)))))
;; Some mac-bindings interfere with Emacs bindings.
(when (boundp 'mac-pass-command-to-system)
(setq mac-pass-command-to-system nil))
Some variables are buffer-local, so changing them using setq
will only
change them in a single buffer. Using setq-default
we change the
buffer-local variable's default value.
(setq-default fill-column 76 ; Maximum line width.
indent-tabs-mode nil ; Use spaces instead of tabs.
split-width-threshold 100 ; Split verticly by default.
auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill) ; Auto-fill-mode everywhere.
The load-path
specifies where Emacs should look for .el
-files (or
Emacs lisp files). I have a directory called site-lisp
where I keep all
extensions that have been installed manually (these are mostly my own
projects).
(let ((default-directory (concat user-emacs-directory "site-lisp/")))
(when (file-exists-p default-directory)
(normal-top-level-add-to-load-path '("."))
(normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path)))
Answering yes and no to each question from Emacs can be tedious, a single y or n will suffice.
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
To avoid file system clutter we put all auto saved files in a single directory.
(defvar emacs-autosave-directory
(concat user-emacs-directory "autosaves/")
"This variable dictates where to put auto saves. It is set to a
directory called autosaves located wherever your .emacs.d/ is
located.")
;; Sets all files to be backed up and auto saved in a single directory.
(setq backup-directory-alist
`((".*" . ,emacs-autosave-directory))
auto-save-file-name-transforms
`((".*" ,emacs-autosave-directory t)))
Set utf-8
as preferred coding system.
(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
By default the narrow-to-region
command is disabled and issues a
warning, because it might confuse new users. I find it useful sometimes,
and don't want to be warned.
(put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil)
Call auto-complete
default configuration, which enables auto-complete
globally.
(eval-after-load 'auto-complete-config `(ac-config-default))
Automaticly revert doc-view
-buffers when the file changes on disk.
(add-hook 'doc-view-mode-hook 'auto-revert-mode)
Modes
There are some modes that are enabled by default that I don't find particularly useful. We create a list of these modes, and disable all of these.
(dolist (mode
'(tool-bar-mode ; No toolbars, more room for text.
scroll-bar-mode ; No scroll bars either.
blink-cursor-mode)) ; The blinking cursor gets old.
(funcall mode 0))
Let's apply the same technique for enabling modes that are disabled by default.
(dolist (mode
'(abbrev-mode ; E.g. sopl -> System.out.println.
column-number-mode ; Show column number in mode line.
delete-selection-mode ; Replace selected text.
recentf-mode ; Recently opened files.
show-paren-mode ; Highlight matching parentheses.
global-undo-tree-mode)) ; Undo as a tree.
(funcall mode 1))
(eval-after-load 'auto-compile
'((auto-compile-on-save-mode 1))) ; compile .el files on save.
This makes .md
-files open in markdown-mode
.
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode))
Visual
Change the color-theme to monokai
(downloaded using package
).
(load-theme 'monokai t)
Use the Inconsolata font if it's installed on the system.
(when (member "Inconsolata-g" (font-family-list))
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Inconsolata-g-11"))
Powerline is an extension to customize the mode line. This is modified
version powerline-nano-theme
.
(setq-default
mode-line-format
'("%e"
(:eval
(let* ((active (powerline-selected-window-active))
;; left hand side displays Read only or Modified.
(lhs (list (powerline-raw
(cond (buffer-read-only "Read only")
((buffer-modified-p) "Modified")
(t "")) nil 'l)))
;; right side hand displays (line,column).
(rhs (list
(powerline-raw
(concat
"(" (number-to-string (line-number-at-pos))
"," (number-to-string (current-column)) ")") nil 'r)))
;; center displays buffer name.
(center (list (powerline-raw "%b" nil))))
(concat (powerline-render lhs)
(powerline-fill-center nil (/ (powerline-width center) 2.0))
(powerline-render center)
(powerline-fill nil (powerline-width rhs))
(powerline-render rhs))))))
This is what it looks like:
Ido
Interactive do (or ido-mode
) changes the way you switch buffers and
open files/directories. Instead of writing complete file paths and buffer
names you can write a part of it and select one from a list of
possibilities. Using ido-vertical-mode
changes the way possibilities
are displayed, and flx-ido-mode
enables fuzzy matching.
(dolist (mode
'(ido-mode ; Interactivly do.
ido-everywhere ; Use Ido for all buffer/file reading.
ido-vertical-mode ; Makes ido-mode display vertically.
flx-ido-mode)) ; Toggle flx ido mode.
(funcall mode 1))
We can set the order of file selections in ido
. I prioritize source
files along with org
- and tex
-files.
(setq ido-file-extensions-order
'(".el" ".scm" ".lisp" ".java" ".c" ".h" ".org" ".tex"))
Sometimes when using ido-switch-buffer
the *Messages*
buffer get in
the way, so we set it to be ignored (it can be accessed using C-h e
, so
there is really no need for it in the buffer list).
(add-to-list 'ido-ignore-buffers "*Messages*")
To make M-x
behave more like ido-mode
we can use the smex
package. It needs to be initialized, and we can replace the binding to
the standard execute-extended-command
with smex
.
(smex-initialize)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-x") 'smex)
Calendar
Define a function to display week numbers in calender-mode
. The snippet
is from EmacsWiki.
(defun calendar-show-week (arg)
"Displaying week number in calendar-mode."
(interactive "P")
(copy-face font-lock-constant-face 'calendar-iso-week-face)
(set-face-attribute
'calendar-iso-week-face nil :height 0.7)
(setq calendar-intermonth-text
(and arg
'(propertize
(format
"%2d"
(car (calendar-iso-from-absolute
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
(list month day year)))))
'font-lock-face 'calendar-iso-week-face))))
Evaluate the calendar-show-week
function.
(calendar-show-week t)
Set Monday as the first day of the week, and set my location.
(setq calendar-week-start-day 1
calendar-latitude 60.0
calendar-longitude 10.7
calendar-location-name "Oslo, Norway")
I use mu4e (which is a part of mu) along with offlineimap on one of my
computers. Because the mail-setup wont work without these programs
installed we bind load-mail-setup
to nil
. If the value is changed to
a non-nil
value mail is setup.
(defvar load-mail-setup nil)
(when load-mail-setup
(eval-after-load 'mu4e
'(progn
;; Some basic mu4e settings.
(setq mu4e-maildir "~/.ifimail" ; top-level Maildir
mu4e-sent-folder "/INBOX.Sent" ; folder for sent messages
mu4e-drafts-folder "/INBOX.Drafts" ; unfinished messages
mu4e-trash-folder "/INBOX.Trash" ; trashed messages
mu4e-refile-folder "/INBOX.Archive" ; saved messages
mu4e-get-mail-command "offlineimap" ; offlineimap to fetch mail
mu4e-compose-signature "- Lars" ; Sign my name
mu4e-update-interval (* 5 60) ; update every 5 min
mu4e-confirm-quit nil ; just quit
mu4e-view-show-images t ; view images
mu4e-html2text-command
"html2text -utf8") ; use utf-8
;; Setup for sending mail.
(setq user-full-name
"Lars Tveito" ; Your full name
user-mail-address
"larstvei@ifi.uio.no" ; And email-address
smtpmail-smtp-server
"smtp.uio.no" ; Host to mail-server
smtpmail-smtp-service 465 ; Port to mail-server
smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl ; Protocol used for sending
send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it ; Use smpt to send
mail-user-agent 'mu4e-user-agent) ; Use mu4e!
;; Register file types that can be handled by ImageMagick.
(when (fboundp 'imagemagick-register-types)
(imagemagick-register-types))))
(autoload 'mu4e "mu4e" nil t)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x m") 'mu4e))
Flyspell
Flyspell offers on-the-fly spell checking. We can enable flyspell for all text-modes with this snippet.
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell)
To use flyspell for programming there is flyspell-prog-mode
, that only
enables spell checking for comments and strings. We can enable it for all
programming modes using the prog-mode-hook
. Flyspell interferes with
auto-complete mode, but there is a workaround provided by auto complete.
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode)
(eval-after-load 'auto-complete
'(ac-flyspell-workaround))
When working with several languages, we should be able to cycle through the languages we most frequently use. Every buffer should have a separate cycle of languages, so that cycling in one buffer does not change the state in a different buffer (this problem occurs if you only have one global cycle). We can implement this by using a closure.
(defun cycle-languages ()
"Changes the ispell dictionary to the first element in
ISPELL-LANGUAGES, and returns an interactive function that cycles
the languages in ISPELL-LANGUAGES when invoked."
(lexical-let ((ispell-languages '#1=("american" "norsk" . #1#)))
(ispell-change-dictionary (car ispell-languages))
(lambda ()
(interactive)
;; Rotates the languages cycle and changes the ispell dictionary.
(ispell-change-dictionary
(car (setq ispell-languages (cdr ispell-languages)))))))
Flyspell
signals an error if there is no spell-checking tool is
installed. We can advice turn-on=flyspell
and flyspell-prog-mode
to
only try to enable flyspell
if a spell-checking tool is available. Also
we want to enable cycling the languages by typing C-c l
, so we bind the
function returned from cycle-languages
.
(defadvice turn-on-flyspell (around check nil activate)
"Turns on flyspell only if a spell-checking tool is installed."
(when (executable-find ispell-program-name)
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c l") (cycle-languages))
ad-do-it))
(defadvice flyspell-prog-mode (around check nil activate)
"Turns on flyspell only if a spell-checking tool is installed."
(when (executable-find ispell-program-name)
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c l") (cycle-languages))
ad-do-it))
Org
I use org-agenda
for appointments and such.
(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil ; Show agenda from today.
org-agenda-files '("~/Dropbox/life.org") ; A list of agenda files.
org-agenda-default-appointment-duration 120) ; 2 hours appointments.
When editing org-files with source-blocks, we want the source blocks to be themed as they would in their native mode.
(setq org-src-fontify-natively t)
Interactive functions
To search recent files useing ido-mode
we add this snippet from
EmacsWiki.
(defun recentf-ido-find-file ()
"Find a recent file using Ido."
(interactive)
(let ((f (ido-completing-read "Choose recent file: " recentf-list nil t)))
(when f
(find-file f))))
just-one-space
removes all whitespace around a point - giving it a
negative argument it removes newlines as well. We wrap a interactive
function around it to be able to bind it to a key.
(defun remove-whitespace-inbetween ()
"Removes whitespace before and after the point."
(interactive)
(just-one-space -1))
This interactive function switches you to a shell
, and if triggered in
the shell it switches back to the previous buffer.
(defun switch-to-shell ()
"Jumps to eshell or back."
(interactive)
(if (string= (buffer-name) "*shell*")
(switch-to-prev-buffer)
(shell)))
To duplicate either selected text or a line we define this interactive function.
(defun duplicate-thing ()
"Ethier duplicates the line or the region"
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(let ((start (if (region-active-p) (region-beginning) (point-at-bol)))
(end (if (region-active-p) (region-end) (point-at-eol))))
(goto-char end)
(unless (region-active-p)
(newline))
(insert (buffer-substring start end)))))
To tidy up a buffer we define this function borrowed from simenheg.
(defun tidy ()
"Ident, untabify and unwhitespacify current buffer, or region if active."
(interactive)
(let ((beg (if (region-active-p) (region-beginning) (point-min)))
(end (if (region-active-p) (region-end) (point-max))))
(indent-region beg end)
(whitespace-cleanup)
(untabify beg (if (< end (point-max)) end (point-max)))))
Presentation mode.
Key bindings
Bindings for expand-region.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-'") 'er/expand-region)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'er/contract-region)
Bindings for multiple-cursors.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c e") 'mc/edit-lines)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c a") 'mc/mark-all-like-this)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c n") 'mc/mark-next-like-this)
Bindings for Magit.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c m") 'magit-status)
Bindings for ace-jump-mode.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c SPC") 'ace-jump-mode)
Bindings for move-text
.
(global-set-key (kbd "<M-S-up>") 'move-text-up)
(global-set-key (kbd "<M-S-down>") 'move-text-down)
Bind some native Emacs functions.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'ispell-word)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'org-agenda-list)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x k") 'kill-this-buffer)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-r") 'recentf-ido-find-file)
Bind the functions defined above.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c j") 'remove-whitespace-inbetween)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x t") 'switch-to-shell)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c d") 'duplicate-thing)
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-tab>") 'tidy)
Advice
An advice can be given to a function to make it behave differently. This
advice makes eval-last-sexp
(bound to C-x C-e
) replace the sexp with
the value.
(defadvice eval-last-sexp (around replace-sexp (arg) activate)
"Replace sexp when called with a prefix argument."
(if arg
(let ((pos (point)))
ad-do-it
(goto-char pos)
(backward-kill-sexp)
(forward-sexp))
ad-do-it))
When interactively changing the theme (using M-x load-theme
), the
current custom theme is not disabled. This often gives weird-looking
results; we can advice load-theme
to always disable themes currently
enabled themes.
(defadvice load-theme
(before disable-before-load (theme &optional no-confirm no-enable) activate)
(mapc 'disable-theme custom-enabled-themes))
Presentation-mode
When giving talks it's nice to be able to scale the text
globally. text-scale-mode
works great for a single buffer, this advice
makes this work globally.
(defadvice text-scale-mode (around all-buffers (arg) activate)
(if (not global-text-scale-mode)
ad-do-it
(setq-default text-scale-mode-amount text-scale-mode-amount)
(dolist (buffer (buffer-list))
(with-current-buffer buffer
ad-do-it))))
We don't want this to be default behavior, so we can make a global mode
from the text-scale-mode
, using define-globalized-minor-mode
.
(require 'face-remap)
(define-globalized-minor-mode
global-text-scale-mode
text-scale-mode
(lambda () (text-scale-mode 1)))
Language mode specific
Lisp
Pretty-lambda
provides a customizable variable
pretty-lambda-auto-modes
that is a list of common lisp modes. Here we
can add some extra lisp-modes. We run the pretty-lambda-for-modes
function to activate pretty-lambda-mode
in lisp modes.
(dolist (mode '(slime-repl-mode geiser-repl-mode))
(add-to-list 'pretty-lambda-auto-modes mode))
(pretty-lambda-for-modes)
I use Paredit
when editing lisp code, we enable this for all lisp-modes
in the pretty-lambda-auto-modes
list.
(dolist (mode pretty-lambda-auto-modes)
;; add paredit-mode to all mode-hooks
(add-hook (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-hook")) 'paredit-mode))
Emacs Lisp
In emacs-lisp-mode
we can enable eldoc-mode
to display information
about a function or a variable in the echo area.
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-eldoc-mode)
(add-hook 'lisp-interaction-mode-hook 'turn-on-eldoc-mode)
Common lisp
I use Slime along with lisp-mode
to edit Common Lisp code. Slime
provides code evaluation and other great features, a must have for a
Common Lisp developer. Quicklisp is a library manager for Common Lisp,
and you can install Slime following the instructions from the site along
with this snippet.
(when (file-exists-p "~/.quicklisp/slime-helper.el")
(load (expand-file-name "~/.quicklisp/slime-helper.el")))
We can specify what Common Lisp program Slime should use (I use SBCL).
(setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
To improve auto completion for Common Lisp editing we can use ac-slime
which uses slime completions as a source.
(add-hook 'slime-mode-hook 'set-up-slime-ac)
(add-hook 'slime-repl-mode-hook 'set-up-slime-ac)
(eval-after-load "auto-complete"
'(add-to-list 'ac-modes 'slime-repl-mode))
Scheme
Geiser provides features similar to Slime for Scheme editing. Everything works pretty much out of the box, we only need to add auto completion, and specify which scheme-interpreter we prefer.
(add-hook 'geiser-mode-hook 'ac-geiser-setup)
(add-hook 'geiser-repl-mode-hook 'ac-geiser-setup)
(eval-after-load "auto-complete"
'(add-to-list 'ac-modes 'geiser-repl-mode))
(eval-after-load "geiser"
'(add-to-list 'geiser-active-implementations 'plt-r5rs)) ;'(racket))
Java and C
The c-mode-common-hook
is a general hook that work on all C-like
languages (C, C++, Java, etc…). I like being able to quickly compile
using C-c C-c
(instead of M-x compile
), a habit from latex-mode
.
(defun c-setup ()
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c C-c") 'compile))
(require 'auto-complete-c-headers)
(add-to-list 'ac-sources 'ac-source-c-headers)
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'c-setup)
Some statements in Java appear often, and become tedious to write out. We can use abbrevs to speed this up.
(define-abbrev-table 'java-mode-abbrev-table
'(("psv" "public static void main(String[] args) {" nil 0)
("sopl" "System.out.println" nil 0)
("sop" "System.out.printf" nil 0)))
To be able to use the abbrev table defined above, abbrev-mode
must be
activated.
(defun java-setup ()
(abbrev-mode t)
(setq-local compile-command (concat "javac " (buffer-name))))
(add-hook 'java-mode-hook 'java-setup)
Assembler
When writing assembler code I use #
for comments. By defining
comment-start
we can add comments using M-;
like in other programming
modes. Also in assembler should one be able to compile using C-c C-c
.
(defun asm-setup ()
(setq comment-start "#")
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c C-c") 'compile))
(add-hook 'asm-mode-hook 'asm-setup)
LaTeX
.tex
-files should be associated with latex-mode
instead of
tex-mode
.
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.tex\\'" . latex-mode))
I like using the Minted package for source blocks in LaTeX. To make org use this we add the following snippet.
(eval-after-load 'org
'(add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist '("" "minted")))
(setq org-latex-listings 'minted)
Because Minted uses Pygments (an external process), we must add the
-shell-escape
option to the org-latex-pdf-process
commands. The
tex-compile-commands
variable controls the default compile command for
Tex- and LaTeX-mode, we can add the flag with a rather dirty statement
(if anyone finds a nicer way to do this, please let me know).
(eval-after-load 'ox-latex
'(setq org-latex-pdf-process
(mapcar
(lambda (str)
(concat "pdflatex -shell-escape "
(substring str (string-match "-" str))))
org-latex-pdf-process)))
(eval-after-load 'tex-mode
'(setcar (cdr (cddaar tex-compile-commands)) " -shell-escape "))
Python
Jedi offers very nice auto completion for python-mode
. Mind that it is
dependent on some python programs as well, so make sure you follow the
instructions from the site.
;; (setq jedi:server-command
;; (cons "python3" (cdr jedi:server-command))
;; python-shell-interpreter "python3")
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'jedi:setup)
(setq jedi:complete-on-dot t)
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'jedi:ac-setup)
Haskell
haskell-doc-mode
is similar to eldoc
, it displays documentation in
the echo area. Haskell has several indentation modes - I prefer using
haskell-indent
.
(add-hook 'haskell-mode-hook 'turn-on-haskell-doc-mode)
(add-hook 'haskell-mode-hook 'turn-on-haskell-indent)
Matlab
Matlab-mode
works pretty good out of the box, but we can do without the
splash screen.
(eval-after-load 'matlab
'(add-to-list 'matlab-shell-command-switches "-nosplash"))