At the end of the day GNU Emacs is more fun than it is frustrating ✨🐂💫

Table of Contents

• 🚀 Get inspired
• 🧠 Why Emacs ?
• 🔥 Features
  • ⚡ Global editor behavior
  • ✨ Appearance
  • 📑 Org mode
  • 🐍 Python
  • 🖊️ Markdown
  • 💽 Git
• 🙌 Life changing tricks
• 🛈 Source
• 📜 License

This Emacs configuration, on top of being a documented configuration for my future self, aims to inspire you through some amazing features delivered by Emacs.
This .emacs.d is made possible thanks to a lot of wise people (see a few in the Source section).
Please feel free to look up certain tricks and functions and add it to your configuration.

A rule that I apply to avoid Emacs bankruptcy : only adopt Emacs Lisp code you need and understand.

If you have to ask what jazz is,
you’ll never know.
Louis Armstrong

Some highlight in favor of Emacs :

• free as in "free speech" AND free as in "free beer"
• it is extensible, a lot
• a community of amazing and active people (so it's constantly evolving)
• programmatically interacting with text using Emacs Lisp and macros
• eventually works directly in the terminal
• full keyboard experience (but you can use your mouse if you want)

Emacs is what you want it be. Emacs is power.
But with great power, comes great responsibility :
the responsibility to think.
Bozhidar Batsov

Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan Perlis

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A minimalist look :

Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
Kant

Have a look at this detailed page for more info.

For now, I use those three :

• org agenda
• org contact
• org journal

Python is the "most powerful language you can still read".
Paul Dubois

If it is not documented,
it doesn't exist.
Louis Fried

Git a life.
Anonymous

It's Magit !

• on your computer settings : change the CapsLk key by ctrl. You're welcome.

• before saving, look whatś different from last save :

  M-x diff-buffer-with-file
  

• align comment or anything using a separator :

  M-x diff-buffer-with-file
  

• preview markdown file :

  M-x markdown-live-preview-mode
  

• to make .emacs point on the .emacs.d/init.el config file, add the following in your .emacs file :

  (setq user-emacs-directory (file-truename "~/.emacs.d/"))
  (setq user-init-file "~/.emacs.d/init.el")
  (load user-init-file)
  

• macro :

  action	kbd
  start macro	C-x (
  end macro	C-x )
  play macro	C-x e
  incremental number	M-x kmacro-insert-counter
  name last macro	M-x name-last-kbd-macro
  call named macro	M-x insert-kbd-macro

• .emacs.d by Damien Garaud
• .emacs.d by Dawid Eckert
• .emacs.d by Purcell
• .emacs.d by Bozhidar Batsov
• .emacs.d by RememberYou
• mastering emacs in one year
• learn elisp in 15 minutes

GPL-3.0 License, I choose you !