Personal setup? about galactic-emacs HOT 10 CLOSED

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Hi @joseph-vidal-rosset,

thanks for having found galactic-emacs very useful. I'm very glad to hear you plan to use it.

Regarding your questions:

1. The list of the packages installed by default can be found here
2. Before you start emacs please edit ~/.emacs.d/personal.el.example adding your personal information and rename it to ~/.emacs.d/personal.el. You could add in here additional packages you wish to install.

Have fun and please lemme know if you encounter any problem.

Regards,
Davide

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Thanks Davide for your reply. My question was not precise enough, sorry. I wondered about the code that I can use to download and install these packages in elpa.
For example in Kitchin's scimax you can see this code:

(require 'package) (setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") ("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/") ("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/") ("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") )) (package-initialize) (when (not package-archive-contents) (package-refresh-contents)) (defvar my-packages-package-list "List of custom packages to install.") ;;; this allows for dynamically update and install packages while ;;; Emacs is running, by modifying this list, and then evaluating it (setq my-packages-package-list '( aggressive-indent all-the-icons all-the-icons-dired all-the-icons-gnus all-the-icons-ibuffer auctex auto-dictionary autoinsert autopair etc. ) ) (mapc #'(lambda (package) (unless (package-installed-p package) (package-install package))) my-packages-package-list)

But I have understood that the code in galactic-emacs is based on use-package. An example of minimal lines that I have to write to install any package would be helpful, if you have time to write it here.
Again, many thanks for your useful work.
Best wishes,
Jo.

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Hi @joseph-vidal-rosset

the package initialisation part is already included in init.el

(if (version< emacs-version "27")
    (package-initialize))
(require 'package)
(setq package-archives
      '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
        ("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/")
        ("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/")
        ("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))

;; Change the below priorities if you prefer melpa-stable packages.
;; Higher is better.
(setq package-archive-priorities
      '(("melpa" .  4)
        ("melpa-stable" . 3)
        ("org" . 2)
        ("gnu" . 1)))

;; Bootstrap `use-package'
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
  (package-refresh-contents)
  (package-install 'use-package))
(eval-when-compile
  (require 'use-package))
(use-package use-package-ensure-system-package
  :ensure t)

So what you should do is simply add in personal.el the packages you want to install. Let's make an example:

(use-package aggressive-indent
  :ensure t
 :config
 (global-aggressive-indent-mode 1))

(use-package autoinsert
  :ensure t
)

(use-package auctex
  :ensure t
)

I hope it's more clear now :). Please make a try and don't hesitate to contact me in case of issue/questions.

Regards,
Davide

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In addition I have added in personal.el.example an example of the installation of an additional packages:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Galactic Emacs additional packages ;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;; Please specify here the additional packages you might want to
;; install. One package per `use-package' declaration. See below
;; examples:

;;(use-package aggressive-indent
;; :ensure t
;; :config
;; (global-aggressive-indent-mode 1)
;; (add-to-list 'aggressive-indent-excluded-modes 'html-mode))

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Have fun. I keep this issue opened. You can close it once you feel confident your setup is working as you expect.

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Hello Davide.
I wanted to get an .emacs.d/ from your galactic-emacs both adapted to my use of emacs (with my keybindings, my org-export settings, my agenda settings, etc.) and with the benefit of using of your updates. But, unfortunately, it is too much work and it is probably useless to try it, because I have to change many parts of your setup, as I already did for a first .emacs.d/ setup here:
https://github.com/joseph-vidal-rosset/stanemacs
that is inspired from galactic-emacs but also different and lighter.
The point is that personal.el in galactic emacs is not a file that overrides the setup in ~/.emacs.d/conf/ . In this respect, the galactic user cannot really add his own setup without inspecting the files in ~/.emacs.d/conf and without changing some part of them, by contrast, with scimax setup https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax that contains a user directory where user.el allows a personal setup free of other tasks on scimax settings.
I regret sincerely to give up at the moment my project (I cannot spend more time on emacs now), but I hope that this report will inspire you.
Anyway and again, congratulations for galactic-emacs, because it is a nice starter-kit, even if it as at the moment not adaptive enough, IMHO.
We stay in touch !
Best wishes,
Jo.

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Hi @joseph-vidal-rosset,

thanks a lot for your valid input. I perfectly understand your points. I will work on galactic-emacs to make user customizations more easier in the future.

Thanks and regards,
Davide

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