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.emacs.d starter kit using req-package

.emacs.d

Yet another starter kit for emacs.

This configuration tries to keep cannonical emacs behaviour, so any emacs familiar user could use it.

It has no evil or other radical stuff. It also extends functionality by replacing canonical keybinding with alternative extensions doing the same thing, so user would never get lost.

This configuration uses req-package system that automatically installs packages on load.

First run is going to take long time as it has to download all required packages.

After that, load time is about 5 seconds on my ssd machine.

To get started just clone this repo to your .emacs.d and run emacs.

git clone https://github.com/edvorg/emacs-configs.git ~/.emacs.d
emacs

For customization add your *.el files to init.d and it will be loaded by load-dir extension.

For additional information refer req-package readme.

emacs-configs's Issues

A bunch of messages "Skipping "../.emacs.d/init.d/*, it's already loaded."

When using a similar configuration I am getting a bunch of messages in a format of:

Skipping /Users/dgorbik/.emacs.d/init.d/objc, it's already loaded.

For every file in init.d I have. Is that a bug of load-dir-one or is that normal?

I like this config

Hi,
That's a cool way...
Do you think it'll help simplify my config here:
https://github.com/ahmadseleem/ViMacs
?
I mean req-package ...etc

load-dir doesn't play nicely with .dir-locals.el

In this configuration you use the load-dir package to avoid having to manually require every file.

However, after trying this myself, it seems that load-dir will also try to load any .dir-locals.el files in the specified directory, which causes problems when it refers to variables/functions that haven't been found yet as those packages aren't loaded.

It might be worth documenting this.

better documentation in init.el and init-real.el

Can you pleas add some explanation of how package-update-load-path and package-try install work. I want to migrate my config to use-package with req-package but I'm still a bit confuse as to how to bootstrap the system in, for example, a new emacs install.

support requiring multiple packages

Currently if I have this config

(req-package helm-projectile
  :require projectile helm
  :defer t)

would give error

[ERROR] Unable to load package helm-projectile -- (error use-package: Unrecognized keyword: helm)

And this one is also not working

(req-package helm-projectile
  :require projectile 
  :require helm
  :defer t)

It would be great if req-package supports multiple packages dependency.

Licensing

These configurations serve as a good example of how to work with your req-package system, and it would be nice to be able to use them freely. As it stands, they are all unlicensed and therefore fully copyright protected[1]. It would be preferable if they were licensed under a permissive license such as the MIT/Expat license.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/pick-a-license-any-license/