;;; init.el --- Init -*- no-byte-compile: t; lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Author: James Cherti ;; URL: https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "29.1")) ;; Keywords: maint ;; Version: 1 ;; SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later ;;; Commentary: ;; This is the main initialization file for Emacs. It configures package ;; archives, ensures essential packages like `use-package` are installed, and ;; sets up further package management and customization settings. ;;; Code: ;;; Load user-pre-init.el (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "pre-init.el") (use-package auto-compile :config (auto-compile-on-load-mode) (auto-compile-on-save-mode)) (use-package gcmh :custom (gcmh-idle-delay 'auto) (gcmh-auto-idle-delay-factor 10) ;; (gcmh-high-cons-threshold (* 16 1024 1024)) :hook (emacs-startup . gcmh-mode)) ;;; Uniquify - Unique buffer name (progn (setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'reverse) (setq uniquify-separator "•") (setq uniquify-after-kill-buffer-p t) ; rename after killing uniquified (setq uniquify-ignore-buffers-re "^\\*")) ;;; Files (progn ;; Do not auto-disable auto-save after deleting large chunks of text. The ;; purpose of auto-save is to provide a failsafe, and disabling it ;; contradicts this objective. (setq auto-save-include-big-deletions t) ;; Auto save options (setq kill-buffer-delete-auto-save-files t) ;; Do not save BackupFiles under the original name with a tilde `~’ (setq backup-by-copying t) ; Backup by copying rather renaming (setq delete-old-versions t) ; Delete excess backup versions silently (setq make-backup-files nil) (setq version-control t)) ;;; Subr (progn ;; Allow for shorter responses: "y" for yes and "n" for no. (defalias #'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) ;; Never show the hello file (defalias #'view-hello-file #'ignore)) ;;; Mule-util (setq truncate-string-ellipsis "…") ;;; Frames and windows (setq frame-title-format '("%b – Emacs") icon-title-format frame-title-format) ;; Do not resize the frames in steps. It can leave gaps. (setq frame-resize-pixelwise t) ;; However, do not resize windows pixelwise, as this can cause crashes in some ;; cases when resizing too many windows at once or rapidly. (setq window-resize-pixelwise nil) (setq resize-mini-windows 'grow-only) ;;; Buffer (setq-default left-fringe-width 8) (setq-default right-fringe-width 8) ;; Do not show an arrow at the top/bottomin the fringe and empty lines (setq-default indicate-buffer-boundaries nil) (setq-default indicate-empty-lines nil) (setq-default word-wrap t) ;;; Smooth scrolling ;; Enables faster scrolling through unfontified regions. This may result in ;; brief periods of inaccurate syntax highlighting immediately after scrolling, ;; which should quickly self-correct. (setq fast-but-imprecise-scrolling t) (setq hscroll-margin 2 hscroll-step 1 ;; Emacs spends excessive time recentering the screen when the cursor ;; moves more than N lines past the window edges (where N is the value of ;; `scroll-conservatively'). This can be particularly slow in larger ;; files during extensive scrolling. If `scroll-conservatively` is set ;; above 100, the window is never automatically recentered. The default ;; value (0) triggers recentering too aggressively, so I've set it to 10 ;; to recenter the window only when scrolling significantly off-screen. scroll-conservatively 10 scroll-margin 0 scroll-preserve-screen-position t ;; Minimize cursor lag slightly by preventing automatic adjustment of ;; `window-vscroll' for tall lines. auto-window-vscroll nil ;; Mouse mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(2 ((shift) . hscroll)) mouse-wheel-scroll-amount-horizontal 2) ;;; Cursor ;; The blinking cursor is distracting and interferes with cursor settings in ;; some minor modes that try to change it buffer-locally (e.g., Treemacs). ;; Additionally, it can cause freezing, especially on macOS, for users with ;; customized and colored cursors. (blink-cursor-mode -1) ;; Don't blink the paren matching the one at point, it's too distracting. (setq blink-matching-paren nil) ;; Don't stretch the cursor to fit wide characters, it is disorienting, ;; especially for tabs. (setq x-stretch-cursor nil) ;;; Annoyances ;; No beeping or blinking (setq visible-bell nil) (setq ring-bell-function #'ignore) ;;; Minimal UI ;; Disable GUIs because theyr are inconsistent across systems, desktop ;; environments, and themes, and they don't match the look of Emacs. (setq use-file-dialog nil) (setq use-dialog-box nil) (when (bound-and-true-p tooltip-mode) (tooltip-mode -1)) ;;; Performance ;; Don't ping things that look like domain names. (setq ffap-machine-p-known 'reject) ;; By default, Emacs "updates" its ui more often than it needs to (setq idle-update-delay 1.0) ;; Font compacting can be very resource-intensive, especially when rendering ;; icon fonts on Windows. This will increase memory usage. (setq inhibit-compacting-font-caches t) (provide 'init) ;;; Load user-pre-init.el (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "post-init.el") ;;; init.el ends here