Emacs Configuration

Requirements
Installation
Key bindings and functions
Packages
Information
Errors
- failed execution of bibtex2html

This is an ongoing evolution of Emacs configuration files, inspired by a bunch of online resources.

Requirements

external packages:

  # flyspell-buffer
  yay -S aspell hunspell
  # org-mode latex-mode
  yay -S biber bibtex2html
  # ledger-mode
  yay -S ledger
  # langtool
  yay -S languagetool
  # python-mode
  yay -S python-pylint
  # emacs-application-famework EAF
  yay -S --needed git nodejs aria2 libreoffice wmctrl xdotool jre-openjdk \
  python-pyqt5 python-pyqt5-sip python-pyqtwebengine python-qrcode \
  python-feedparser python-dbus python-pyinotify python-markdown \
  python-grip filebrowser-bin python-epc

Optional package for EAF see in Installation.

Installation

Install into ~/.config/emacs (must be empty)

  git clone http://gogs.weseng.de/daniel/emacs.git ~/.config/emacs

or copy all files of this directory into your ~/.config/emacs directory

for Emacs version < 27 create symbolic link to the init file
ln -s ~/.config/emacs/init ~/.emacs (or ~/.emacs.el, ~/.emacs.d/init.el)

copy/merge the texmf directory into your home directory

optional for EAF

  yay --editmenu -S mupdf python-pymupdf

edit PGKBUILD file for python-pymupdf to:

prepare() {
  cd "${_name}-${pkgver}"
  patch --forward --strip=1 --input="${HOME}/.config/emacs/scripts/fix-pymupdf-library-linking-for-arcolinux.patch"
}

Key bindings and functions

M->	end-of-buffer
M-<	beginning-of-buffer
C-x h	mark-whole-buffer	mark the whole buffer
C-x TAB	indent-rigidly	indent selected region
C-x RET f	set-buffer-file-coding-system	e. g. set to utf-8
	decode-coding-region	e. g. decode to utf-8 (郭富城Aaron Kwok)
	diff-buffer-with-file	show a diff between buffer and file
C-h v	counsel-describe-variable	help text of variable
C-h f	counsel-describe-funtion	help text of function

General

C-c \|	org-table-create-or-convert-from-region	convert seperator 1. TAB, 2. comma, 3. space
C-u C-c \|	org-table-create-or-convert-from-region	convert using comma (CSV) seperator
C-u C-u C-c \|	org-table-create-or-convert-from-region	convert using TAB
C-u N C-c \|	org-table-create-or-convert-from-region	convert using N spaces
C-u REGEX C-c \|	org-table-create-or-convert-from-region	convert using regex to match seperator
C-c C-x \	org-toggle-pretty-entries	e. g. displays `\pm` as ±
Org table
S-right	org-shiftright	move a single cell right
S-left	org-shiftleft	move a single cell left
C-c SPC	org-table-blank-field	clear cell
Org src block
C-c C-v t	org-babel-tangle	create a file with the content of the block, use in header: :tangle filename

Org

C-r	query-replace-regexp	replace text. (former isearch-backward)
C-x C-b	ibuffer	list buffers (former list-buffers)
C-x \|	toggle-window-split	toggle horizontal/vertical 2 window split
M-up	move-line-up	move current line up
M-down	move-line-down	move current line down
mouse-6		scroll right
mouse-7		scroll left
mouse-8	previous-buffer
mouse-9	next-buffer
f5		in org export to html
f6		in org export to LaTeX

Custom and changed keys

M-m s m a	mc/mark-all-dwim	try to mark all at point
C-v		jump to next cursor
M-v		jump to previous cursor
C-'		hide/unhide lines without a cursor

Multiple cursors

Packages

rainbow-mode.el: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/rainbow-mode.html rainbow-mode is a minor mode for Emacs which displays strings representing colors with the color they represent as background.

Information

Interlock symlinks and auto-save files. Be aware that symbolic links of the form “.#*” are not auto-save files but interlocks to prevent the simultaneous editing of the same file. See Interlocking in the EmacsManual for details.

Errors

failed execution of bibtex2html

see bib2htmlxxxxxx.blg for errors, e.g.

I couldn't open style file acmu.bst

copy/merge the texmf directory into your home directory.

6.4 KiB Raw Blame History