starter-kit-misc-recommended.org

Starter Kit Misc Recommended

This is part of the Emacs Starter Kit.

Starter Kit Misc

Things that don’t fit anywhere else, and which aren’t quite universal enough to live in starter-kit-misc.org.

Check Dependencies

Determine whether required packages are installed. If not, use ELPA to install them. Other dependencies are provided by Emacs 24.

(dolist (package '(yaml-mode js2-mode))
  (unless (package-installed-p package)
    (package-install package)))

Window systems – remove visual cruft

(when window-system
  (tooltip-mode -1)
  (tool-bar-mode -1))

No Menu Bar

You really don’t need this; trust me.

(menu-bar-mode -1)

Nxhtml – utilities for web development

Nxhtml is a large package of utilities for web development and for embedding multiple major modes in a single buffer.

Nxhtml is not installed in this version of the starter-kit by default, for information on installing nxhtml see EmacsWiki-Nxhtml.

Set browser

Set this to whatever browser you use e.g…

;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-macosx-browser)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-windows-browser)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-kde)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-epiphany)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-w3m)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
;;       browse-url-generic-program "~/src/conkeror/conkeror")

Associate modes with file extensions

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("COMMIT_EDITMSG$" . diff-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.css$" . css-mode))
(require 'yaml-mode)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ya?ml$" . yaml-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("Rakefile$" . ruby-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js\\(on\\)?$" . js2-mode))
;; (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.xml$" . nxml-mode))