Hack Emacs - Using Initialization Files

Part two of the three part series on customizing Emacs' startup. We look at the basics of how to use an initialization files like .emacs and .emacs.d/init.el to execute arbitrary elisp commands when you start up Emacs. We explore a couple of examples and point out resources for further reading in the manuals.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hack-emacs
• emacs
• howto
• elisp
• .emacs

[faithx92]

Absolutely useful, thank you again.

Please feel free to answer this short question in a comment: in previous episodes, I noticed that you could make one bullet in org-mode the focus of the screen (i.e. bullet at the top of the screen and nothing else) would you care to share how that is achieved?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. In my humble opinion, I find that org-indent-mode is quite visually appealing.

[rpdillon]

@faithx92 Yeah, absolutely. I actually wrote a couple of functions that make use of buffer narrowing in org-mode via C-x n s, which narrows the buffer to the current subtree. The functions simply allow me to move to next/previous top-level subtrees within an outline without widening the buffer first, which I find useful for some presentations. I can push the code to a GitHub gist or something like that, but it's pretty simple stuff.

[poojkhgf]

please can you set your font to be bigger for the videos?

[mgualt1]

very useful - I hope you will address text wrapping in more detail, as it is a huge headache for me as I edit Latex and use Auctex and it is all very confusing.

I noticed that even in your org-mode if one of the bullet points has a long line, it wraps but is not indented at the wrap. This breaks the indentation structure in the orgmode list and it looks awful to me - - presumably you tolerate it because you don't know how to fix this bad wrapping?

[WThomasDaveyIII]

Hi Rick, I'm making progress in moving my personal to-do system to org-mode. Learning the fundamentals of Emacs is really important. So thanks for this whole awesome series. It's great to see you demonstrate things, like ielm, that I read about in the manuals but don't have an inkling what they might be good for.

[itikka08]

Thank you very much.

[groundbirdable]

Thanks! - great videos.

[Hamdori]

I've been using Emacs for a while, and every video I learn something new. Thanks for the great video!!

[Hamdori]

Great video. Thanks!!