This is my personal Emacs configuration. I tend to prefer learning how to use built-in packages for any given task. If I get a small itch to scratch, I’ll typically write my own tiny package for it. For itches too big to handle on my own I do go shopping for external packages.

There is also code I wind up writing with no itch of my own to scratch: I like reading r/emacs and writing little functions for people there. The functions I like and think I might use someday become tiny packages here. Writing small snippets for other people is probably my favorite way of learning Emacs, because it takes me down paths I don’t think I would explore on my own.

In the past I’ve been a Helm and an Ivy & Counsel user. These packages are fantastic and chock-full of functionality, I highly recommend them!

But I’ve been on a built-in-ism kick for the last few months so I started using the built-in Icomplete. And I wrote two packages to make it more comfortable: icomplete-vertical to show candidates vertically and orderless to do out-of-order regexp matching. I’m pretty happy with the combination. (Both actually started as packages I wrote for people on r/emacs and now I use them all the time!)

Update: I’m restless! I’m now using three other packages I wrote: live-completions, regexpect and embark. :P

For many years I kept trying Emacs themes and always went back to the default theme. I don’t understand why people don’t like the default theme, to me it is clearly better than almost all others. :)

I finally found themes I like better than the default: Protesilaos Stavrou’s modus themes!

I separated the personal part of my configuration to publish this. The personal part doesn’t cover that much: email addresses and signatures, org capture templates, org agenda configuration, and the org-publish configuration for my academic website, basically. In particular most my org mode configuration is in this public part.

I intend to publish the most reusable parts of my configuration as separate packages. So far that is:

• icomplete-vertical
• orderless
• math-delimiters
• placeholder
• epithet
• restricto
• embark
• live-completions