emacs-config

Motivation

The repository emacs-config is my attempt to impose some order on my sprawling .emacs file. In the course of working with emacs, I noticed several complementary problems:

Versioning

Small changes to the emacs ecology can sometimes be difficult (for me) to predict, and their consequences difficult to mend.

Synching

I work on four or five different machines, and the four or five separate .emacses have begun to drift appreciably.

Embarrassing code creep

My approach to the .emacs file is essentially cargo-cultish. I can probably count on one hand the number of times that I’ve solved problems by sitting down and composing elisp. Instead, I typically find 5 lines of someone else’s .emacs that does the job, paste them in, and hope that the resulting frankensource does what I want. It is at least plausible that exposing my shameful init files to the world might encourage me to clean them up.

Setup

(Adapted from github.com/dimitri).

cd ~
git clone http://github.com/poneill/emacs-config emacs-config
mkdir -p ~/.emacs.d
( cd ~/.emacs.d && ln -s emacs-config/init.el . )