My preferred IDE, as customized by me. Despite the fact that it's incredibly uncomfortable for me to edit in any other setup, I feel like this customization is general enough for any new Emacs user to pick up when they're tired of the vanilla setup (which is probably the day of download).
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Download Emacs
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Clone this repo into
~/.emacs.d/ -
Download all dependencies by running the handy script:
~/emacs.d/emacs-config/update-submodules.sh -
Edit the first line of
~/.emacsto find the init-emacs file in this repo:(load-file "~/.emacs.d/emacs-config/init-emacs.el") -
Open Emacs. It'll download all the packages it needs, now that you told it where to look.
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Get on gettin' on!
The configuration files of this repo are fairly descriptive (my-dev, my-appearance, etc) so look through them if you're curious about what does what for any part of the system. Packages of particular use to me are:
- Magit [C-x C-i] - Beautiful Git interface.
- Dired [C-x C-d] - File management
- Compilation [f6] - Compile and test programs and packages
- Eshell [f2] - Shell in Emacs!
If you're new to Emacs, always remember that you can see all of the keybindings available for your current mode with the keybinding C-h m. Such a nice feature.