Leveraging my Emacs configuration
How to use my emacs configuration
There are a lot of good emacs configurations out there. My configuration is borrowed from many of them. Once in a while, I’ll become frustrated with one aspect of emacs or another and I’ll look into how people have addressed it. That action tends to lead me down a rabbit hole of finding new features, workflow, and configurations that interest me. Then I build out a few changes as I merge the possibilities with my own workflow needs.
This is all to say that my configuration is very personal. The best way forward with Emacs for anybody is to develop your own configuration based on your own personal needs. Of course, that’s far from a possibility for someone getting started and my personal experience is that it took years before I got around to doing it for myself.
Depending on your level of experience, you will want to leverage my configuration in a few different ways:
- Follow the installation instructions - I use this configuration across computers, operating systems, and sometimes different emacs versions. Because I use them myself I tend to keep installation instructions complete and up to date.
- Pick and choose the features you want - I try to keep the configuration of disparate features in separate files. This should make it easy for you to copy my configuration into your own.
- Learn from what I’m doing, then make it better and more personalized for you.