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Simple emacs config

Written by Solène, on 02 May 2016.
Tags: #emacs #cheatsheet

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Here is a dump of my emacs config file. That may be useful for some emacs users who begin.

If you doesn’t want to have your_filename.txt~ files with a tilde at the end (this is a default backup file), add this

; I don't want to have backup files everywhere with filename~ name 
(setq backup-inhibited t) 
(setq auto-save-default nil)

To have parenthesis highlighting on match, which is very useful, you will need this

; show match parenthesis 
(show-paren-mode 1)

I really like this one. It will save the cursor position in every file you edit. When you edit it again, you start exactly where you leaved the last time.

; keep the position of the cursor after editing 
(setq save-place-file "~/.emacs.d/saveplace") 
(setq-default save-place t) 
(require 'saveplace)`

If you write in utf-8 (which is very common now) you should add this.

; utf8 
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

Emacs modes are used depending on the extension of a file. Sometime you need to edit files with a custom extension but you want to use a mode for it. So, you just need to add some line like this to get your mode automatically when you load the file.

; associate extension - mode 
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode)) 
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.tpl$" . html-mode))

My Org-mode part in the config file

(require 'org)
(define-key global-map "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
(setq org-log-done t)
(setq org-agenda-files (list "~/Org/work.org" "~/Org/home.org"))

Stop mixing tabs and space when indenting

(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)