Emacs Configuration

Intro

This is my configuration for Emacs. I started using Emacs after I started learning the Common Lisp programming language, so it includes configuration for SLIME and extensive Common Lisp implementation detection facilities. It is only needed for a Common Lisp implementation to be in PATH. It also contains sane configuration for Dired.

I am being using this config daily on both Linux and Windows and I do not see any difficulties to using it on OS X or any other Unix-like operating system.

I tried to keep it modular and clear. After you start Emacs first time it will automatically download all the needed packages. You can change list of automatically downloadable packages in packages.el.

I hope you will find it useful and learn some tricks from it.

Email and user name setup

I suggest you to create the user.el file with your user name and e-mail. It will look like:

<pre> ;; setup username and e-mail (setq user-full-name "Name Surname") (setq user-mail-address "your.email@example.com") </pre>

Notes

I added some commands to simplify experimenting with Emacs configuration.

• reload - it will reload init.el file. It results in rereading all the configuration files by Emacs. Works most of the time. If you have some troubles after executing this command, just restart Emacs.
• dired-config - it will open Emacs configuration directory (~/.emacs.d/) in Dired.
• dired-home - open home directory in Dired.

I wanted to keep some Emacs data files outside of Emacs configuration directory. It includes Desktop file, ELPA packages, auto completion history etc. This files moved into ~\.emacs.data. As result you can safely synchronize this Emacs configuration via i.e. Dropbox.

License

All the files in this configuration are in public domain if not stated otherwise.