Emacs Init Setup

Table of Contents

Init Basics

• Emacs Init: Intro
• Emacs Init: File Location
• Emacs Init: Sample Init
• Emacs Init: Ignore Init File

• Set Default Window (frame) Size

Font

• Setup Font

Keys

• Which Key Mode

Text Editing

• Type Overwrite Selection
• Tab, Indent
• Auto Insert Closing Bracket (electric-pair-mode)
• isearch Whitespace Regex
• Emacs: Move Cursor by camelCase, snake_case

Completion

• Icomplete Mode
• Hippie Expand
• Abbrev Mode

File

• Set Default File Encoding
• Emacs: Refresh, Revert File
• Set Default Major Mode
• Dired Config

Restore Things

• Restore Opened Files (desktop-save-mode)
• Save Cursor Position
• Save Command History

Backup, Auto Save

• Emacs: Real Automatic Save File
• Emacs: #auto-save# (hashtag filename)
• Emacs: Turn Off Auto Backup~ (tilde postfix)

Line Editing

• Show Line Numbers
• Emacs: Hard-Wrap Lines (fill-region)
• Emacs: Visual Line Mode
• Arrow Key for Screen Line or Logical Line

Line Appearance

• Highlight Current Line
• Show Cursor Column Position
• Ruler Mode
• Emacs: Toggle Word Wrap
• Emacs: Line Wrap
• Line Height

Appearance

• Set Color Theme
• Highlight Brackets
• Emacs: text-quoting-style
• Whitespace Mode
• Display Lambda as λ

Misc

• Emacs: Bookmark Init
• Emacs: Misc Init Tips
• Emacs: Command Name Alias
• Stop Cursor Going into Minibuffer Prompt

Advanced Init Tips

• Emacs: Major Mode
• Emacs: Minor Mode
• Emacs: Show Variable Value and Doc
• M-x customize
• Organize Init File
• Emacs: Byte Compile Elisp Files
• Emacs Init: Hook
• Emacs Init: Environment Variables
• Emacs Init: Get Version, Host Name, User Name, Init Dir

packages

• Install Package from ELPA, MELPA
• Install Package Manually