path: root/.config/emacs/config.org

#+TITLE: Emacs Configuration
#+AUTHOR: Thomas Voss
#+DATE: <2023-08-09 Wed>
#+DESCRIPTION: My Emacs configuration — before I ran ‘rm -rf ~/.config’ that is
#+STARTUP: overview

* Headers

The first thing we need in any configuration is a header setting
~lexical-binding~ to ~t~.  This will allow us to have non-autistic behavior when
scoping variables.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp :tangle early-init.el
  ;;; early-init.el --- Emacs early configuration file  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
#+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp :tangle init.el
  ;;; init.el --- Emacs configuration file  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
#+END_SRC

* Early Init File
:PROPERTIES:
:header-args: :tangle early-init.el
:END:

** Numerical Constants

These are not really important, but nice to have to make the following
configuration more readable.  The reason they’re defined in the ~early-init.el~
is simply because I need to use them here.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defconst 1-KiB 1024
    "The number of bytes in 1 kibibyte.")

  (defconst 1-MiB (* 1-KiB 1024)
    "The number of bytes in 1 mebibyte.")

  (defconst 1-GiB (* 1-MiB 1024)
    "The number of bytes in 1 gibibyte.")

#+END_SRC

** XDG Directories

We want to define variables for the main XDG directories for Emacs to use.
These are nice for keeping things organized and out of the way.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defconst mango-cache-directory
    (expand-file-name
     "emacs"
     (or (getenv "XDG_CACHE_HOME")
         (expand-file-name ".cache" (getenv "HOME"))))
    "The XDG-conformant cache directory that Emacs should use.")

  (defconst mango-config-directory
    (expand-file-name
     "emacs"
     (or (getenv "XDG_CONFIG_HOME")
         (expand-file-name ".config" (getenv "HOME"))))
    "The XDG-conformant config directory that Emacs should use.")

  (defconst mango-data-directory
    (expand-file-name
     "emacs"
     (or (getenv "XDG_DATA_HOME")
         (expand-file-name ".local/share" (getenv "HOME"))))
    "The XDG-conformant data directory that Emacs should use.")

#+END_SRC

We also need to ensure our directories actually exist.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (mapc (lambda (x) (make-directory x t))
        (list mango-cache-directory
              mango-config-directory
              mango-data-directory))

#+END_SRC

We don’t want to have all sorts of random garbage populating the configuartion
directory; let’s throw it all in the cache directory instead.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq user-emacs-directory mango-cache-directory
        auto-save-list-file-prefix (expand-file-name
                                    "auto-save-list/"
                                    mango-cache-directory)
        backup-directory-alist `(("." . ,(expand-file-name
                                          "backups"
                                          mango-cache-directory))))

#+END_SRC

** Default Limits

These are just some limits Emacs abides by as far as garbage-collection and
process communication go.  They’re pretty low by default though; any modern
system is capable of much higher.  To improve startup performance the garbage
collection theshold is set to the max until Emacs is initialized.  Additionally
the documentation for ~read-process-output-max~ gives us a hint at how large we
can set it:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE

  On GNU/Linux systems, the value should not exceed
  =/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size=.  See pipe(7) manpage for details.

#+END_QUOTE

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum)
  (add-hook 'after-init-hook
            (lambda () (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 512 1-MiB))))

  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents "/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size")
    (setq read-process-output-max (number-at-point)))

#+END_SRC

** Package Management

Finally, we want to completely disable ~package.el~ since we’re going to be
using ~straight.el~ in the main configuration.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)

#+END_SRC

* Init File
:PROPERTIES:
:header-args: :tangle init.el
:END:

** Helper Functions and -Macros

*** Shorter Lambdas

It’s annoying to have to write out ~(lambda () BODY)~ every time I want to write
a lambda that takes no args — a very common operation.  The solution is to just
use an actual lambda.  If I ever forget how to enter a lambda, it’s =C-x 8 RET=.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defmacro λ (&rest body)
    "Convenience macro to create lambda functions that take no arguments with much
  short and concise syntax.  Calling ‘λ’ with BODY is equivalent to calling
  ‘lambda’ with an empty argument list and BODY."
    (declare (pure t) (side-effect-free t))
    `(lambda () ,@body))

#+END_SRC

*** Hooks from Modes

It is very often that I have a mode symbol and I want to extract the
corresponding hook from it.  Luckily there’s a pretty standard naming convention
here.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango-mode-to-hook (mode)
    "Get the hook corresponding to MODE."
    (declare (pure t) (side-effect-free t))
    (intern (concat (symbol-name mode) "-hook")))

#+END_SRC

*** Tree-Sitter Modes

As I was writing this configuration, Emacs 29 released on the Arch repositories
with native support for ~tree-sitter~.  As a result many major-modes now have two
versions — a regular version and a ~tree-sitter~ version.  I should have pretty
equal configurations for both versions of a mode so it’s useful to be able to
grab one from the other.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango-mode-to-ts-mode (mode)
    "Get the tree-sitter mode corresponding to MODE."
    (declare (pure t) (side-effect-free t))
    (intern (concat
             (string-remove-suffix "-mode" (symbol-name mode))
             "-ts-mode")))

#+END_SRC

** Package Management

For package management I like to use ~straight.el~.  Before setting that up
though it’s probably best to disable native-compilation warnings; we’ll get a
whole lot of those when ~straight.el~ is installing packages.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq comp-async-report-warnings-errors nil
        native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors nil)

#+END_SRC

After doing that, we can bootstrap ~straight.el~.  The two options enabled at
the end are just configuring ~use-package~ to always use ~straight.el~ by
default, and to always ensure packages unless stated otherwise.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defvar bootstrap-version)
  (let ((bootstrap-file
         (expand-file-name "straight/repos/straight.el/bootstrap.el" user-emacs-directory))
        (bootstrap-version 6))
    (unless (file-exists-p bootstrap-file)
      (with-current-buffer
          (url-retrieve-synchronously
           "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radian-software/straight.el/develop/install.el"
           'silent 'inhibit-cookies)
        (goto-char (point-max))
        (eval-print-last-sexp)))
    (load bootstrap-file nil 'nomessage))

  (setq straight-use-package-by-default t
        use-package-always-ensure t)

#+END_SRC

** Documentation

Documentation is absolutely essential.  The ~helpful~ package gives us much
better documentation for things, so let’s use it.  I’m mostly just overriding
the bindings for the standard ~describe-*~ functions.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package helpful
    :bind (("C-h f"   . #'helpful-callable)
           ("C-h v"   . #'helpful-variable)
           ("C-h k"   . #'helpful-key)
           ("C-h o"   . #'helpful-symbol)
           ("C-c C-d" . #'helpful-at-point)))

#+END_SRC

** Key Bindings

*** Editing This Config

This configuration is one of the files I visit the most.  Not just for making
large customizations, but also for simply editing the tab-width for a mode I
happen to be using.  For that reason there should probably be a binding to get
here.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (keymap-global-set
   "C-c e"
   (λ (interactive)
      (find-file
       (expand-file-name "config.org" mango-config-directory))))

#+END_SRC

*** Evil Mode

The default Emacs keybindings are horrible and dangerous.  Feel free to use them
if you want to develop genuine problems with your hands.  For this reason,
~evil-mode~ bindings are the way to go.  Also as I was writing this, Bram
Moolenaar, the creator of Vim died.  RIP.

Here we setup bindings in the ~:bind~ section; the functions bound to that don’t
exist yet will be created shortly.  You also need to set all these variables
/before/ ~evil-mode~ is loaded — it’s just how ~evil~ works I suppose.  Finally
I like to have ~visual-line-mode~ enabled as I find it far more intuitive.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package evil
    :bind (:map evil-normal-state-map
           ("€"         . #'evil-end-of-visual-line)
           ("<leader>h" . #'evil-window-left)
           ("<leader>j" . #'evil-window-down)
           ("<leader>k" . #'evil-window-up)
           ("<leader>l" . #'evil-window-right)
           ("<leader>a" . #'mango--evil-align-regexp)
           ("<leader>s" . #'mango--evil-sort-lines)
           ("<leader>;" . #'mango--evil-comment-or-uncomment-region))
    :init
    ;; We need to set these variables before loading ‘evil-mode’
    (setq evil-want-Y-yank-to-eol t
          evil-v$-excludes-newline t
          evil-respect-visual-line-mode t
          evil-split-window-below t
          evil-vsplit-window-right t
          evil-want-fine-undo t
          evil-undo-system 'undo-redo
          evil-flash-delay 1
          evil-want-keybinding nil)
    (evil-mode)
    (global-visual-line-mode)
    :config
    (evil-set-leader nil (kbd "SPC")))

#+END_SRC

*** Evil Surround

This is probably one of the more useful Vim/Emacs extensions out there.  It
let’s you easy add-, remove-, and change surrounding pairs such as quotation
marks and parenthesis from a /text object/.  I like to use unicode single- and
double quotation marks — so we also want to add support for those.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package evil-surround
    :after evil
    :config
    (global-evil-surround-mode))

#+END_SRC

Supporting custom pairs is a bit tricky since we need to define an evil /text
object/ to make them work properly.  Also we add some custom Jinja pairs!

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defmacro mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object (name key start-regex end-regex)
    (let ((inner-name (make-symbol (concat "evil-inner-" name)))
          (outer-name (make-symbol (concat "evil-a-"     name))))
      `(progn
         (evil-define-text-object ,inner-name (count &optional beg end type)
           (evil-select-paren ,start-regex ,end-regex beg end type count nil))
         (evil-define-text-object ,outer-name (count &optional beg end type)
           (evil-select-paren ,start-regex ,end-regex beg end type count t))
         (define-key evil-inner-text-objects-map ,key #',inner-name)
         (define-key evil-outer-text-objects-map ,key #',outer-name))))

  (mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object "single-quote-open"  "‘" "‘" "’")
  (mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object "single-quote-close" "’" "‘" "’")
  (mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object "double-quote-open"  "“" "“" "”")
  (mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object "double-quote-close" "”" "“" "”")

  (setq-default
   evil-surround-pairs-alist
   (append
    '((?‘ . ("‘ " . " ’"))
      (?’ . ("‘"  .  "’"))
      (?“ . ("“ " . " ”"))
      (?“ . ("“"  .  "”")))
    evil-surround-pairs-alist))

  (add-hook
   'html-mode-hook
   (λ (setq-local
       evil-surround-pairs-alist
       (append
        '((?% . ("{% " . " %}"))
          (?# . ("{# " . " #}"))
          (?{ . ("{{ " . " }}")))
        evil-surround-pairs-alist))
      (mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object "jinja-action"  "%" "{%" "%}")
      (mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object "jinja-comment" "#" "{#" "#}")
      (mango--evil-define-and-bind-quoted-text-object "jinja-code"    "{" "{{" "}}")))

#+END_SRC

*** Evil Collection

This is a super-simple to setup package that adds ~evil~ bindings to many other
custom packages like ~magit~ and ~mu4e~.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package evil-collection
    :after evil
    :config
    (evil-collection-init))

#+END_SRC

*** Aligning Text

I absolutely love aligning text with ~align-regexp~.  It is in my opinion one of
the most underrated Emacs functions.  Unfortunately, it aligns with tabs or
-spaces based on the setting of ~indent-tabs-mode~.  Personally I am almost
always indenting with tabs, but I prefer to align with spaces.  Luckily we can
use some advice to force the usage of spaces.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango--align-regexp-with-spaces (old-function &rest args)
    "Advice to force ‘align-regexp’ to always align with spaces, regardless of the
  value of ‘indent-tabs-mode’."
    (let (indent-tabs-mode)
      (apply old-function args)))

  (advice-add 'align-regexp :around #'mango--align-regexp-with-spaces)

#+END_SRC

Now that it’s behaving properly, it should also be turned into an ~evil~
operator so it can be used with Vim motions.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (evil-define-operator mango--evil-align-regexp (beg end regexp repeat)
    "Wrapper around ‘align-regexp’ to allow for use as an ‘evil-mode’ operator."
    (interactive (let ((range (evil-operator-range)))
                   (list (car range)
                         (cadr range)
                         (concat "\\(\\s-*\\)"
                                 (read-string "Align regexp: "))
                         (y-or-n-p "Repeat? "))))
    (align-regexp beg end regexp 1 1 repeat))

#+END_SRC

*** Sorting Text

Another very common operation is sorting text.  So why not make an operator for
that too?

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (evil-define-operator mango--evil-sort-lines (beg end)
    "Wrapper around ‘sort-lines’ to allow for use as an ‘evil-mode’ operator."
    (sort-lines nil beg end))

#+END_SRC

*** Commenting Code

Commenting code is a super common task — so make it an operator!

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (evil-define-operator mango--evil-comment-or-uncomment-region (beg end)
    "Wrapper around ‘comment-or-uncomment-region’ to allow for use as
  an ‘evil-mode’ operator."
    (comment-or-uncomment-region beg end))

#+END_SRC

** Completions

*** Savehist-Mode

This mode is super handy.  It let’s you preserve your history in minibuffer
prompts.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (savehist-mode)

#+END_SRC

*** Vertico & Marginalia

Vertico is a great package for enhanced completions in the minibuffer.  It’s
minimal and works great.  We also want to configure the highlighting of the
current line to match up with what is used for ~hl-line-mode~.  Vertico also
doesn’t offer a builtin function to go up a directory when typing out a path, so
that’s what the ~mango-minibuffer-backward-kill~ is for.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango-minibuffer-backward-kill (arg)
    "When minibuffer is completing a file name delete up to parent folder,
  otherwise delete a word."
    (interactive "p")
    (if minibuffer-completing-file-name
        (if (string-match-p "/." (minibuffer-contents))
            (zap-up-to-char (- arg) ?/)
          (delete-minibuffer-contents))
      (backward-kill-word arg)))

  (use-package vertico
    :bind (:map vertico-map
           ("C-j" . vertico-next)
           ("C-k" . vertico-previous)
           ("C-l" . vertico-insert)
           :map minibuffer-local-map
           ("C-h" . mango-minibuffer-backward-kill))
    :custom
    (vertico-cycle t)
    :init
    (vertico-mode))

#+END_SRC

Marginalia is kind of a suppliment I like to use with Vertico.  It adds, well…
/marginalia/ to the completions in the minibuffer.  This includes things like
file sizes and permissions when looking at files, function docstrings when
looking at those, etc.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package marginalia
    :after vertico
    :init
    (marginalia-mode))

#+END_SRC

*** Orderless

Orderless is another pretty neat package.  It allows for better completion
candidate filtering.  I personally prefer to use the ~orderless-prefixes~
completion style where entering the string “foo bar baz” will match the options
that have components beginning with /foo/, /bar/, and /baz/ in that order.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package orderless
    :custom
    (completion-styles '(orderless basic))
    (orderless-matching-styles '(orderless-prefixes))
    (completion-category-overrides '((file (styles basic partial-completion)))))

#+END_SRC

*** TODO Company

Company is a package to give me actual completion popups; it’s super useful for
autocompleting code but has other uses too I guess.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  ;; TODO: Properly configure ‘company’

  (use-package company
    :hook ((conf-mode prog-mode) . company-mode)
    :custom
    (company-minimum-prefix-length 1)
    (company-idle-delay 0.0))

#+END_SRC

** Math and Numbers

*** Calc

The built-in emacs calculator ~calc~ is genuinely the best calculator program I
have ever used.  Annoyingly though, it has a ‘trail’ that is always around.  I
don’t like it.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq calc-display-trail nil)

#+END_SRC

*** Increment- and Decrement Number at Point

This is a pretty standard Vim feature that I dearly miss having.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango-increment-number-at-point (&optional arg)
    "Increment the number at point by ARG or 1 if ARG is nil.  If called
  interactively, the universal argument can be used to specify ARG.  If the number
  at point has leading zeros then the width of the number is preserved."
    (interactive "p*")
    (save-excursion
      (save-match-data
        (skip-chars-backward "0123456789")
        (when (eq (char-before (point)) ?-)
          (goto-char (1- (point))))
        (when (re-search-forward "-?\\([0-9]+\\)" nil t)
          (let ((answer (+ (string-to-number (match-string 0) 10)
                           (or arg 1)))
                (width (length (match-string 1))))
            (replace-match
             (format
              (concat "%0" (int-to-string (if (< answer 0) (1+ width) width)) "d")
              answer)))))))

  (defun mango-decrement-number-at-point (&optional arg)
    "The same as ‘mango-increment-number-at-point’, but ARG is negated."
    (interactive "p*")
    (mango-increment-number-at-point (- (or arg 1))))

  (keymap-global-set "C-c a" #'mango-increment-number-at-point)
  (keymap-global-set "C-c x" #'mango-decrement-number-at-point)

#+END_SRC

** Programming

*** Indentation

Indentation in Emacs is a royal pain in the ass.   Not only is there a
~tab-width~ variable and the ~indent-tabs-mode~ mode, but lots of modes just
have an extra ~tab-width~-esque variable for some reason?  I try to fix this all
with a custom function that reads a list of mode-specific indentation settings.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq-default tab-width 8
                evil-shift-width 8
                indent-tabs-mode t)

  (defvar mango-indentation-settings
    '((c-mode :width 8 :extra-vars (c-basic-offset))
      (css-mode :extra-vars (css-indent-offset))
      (emacs-lisp-mode :spaces t)
      (graphviz-dot-mode :extra-vars (graphviz-dot-indent-width))
      (lisp-mode :spaces t)
      (org-mode :spaces t)
      (python-mode :width 4 :spaces nil :extra-vars (python-indent-offset))
      (rust-mode :width 4 :spaces nil)
      (sgml-mode :width 4 :spaces nil :extra-vars (sgml-basic-offset))
      (xml-mode :width 4 :spaces nil))
    "A list of per-mode indentation settings.  Each list contains a major-mode and
  the 3 optional keyword arguments of :spaces, :width, and :extra-vars.  When
  setting the settings for a given major-mode, the settings will also be applied
  for that modes tree-sitter variant.

  If :spaces is non-nil, then indentation will be performed with spaces instead of
  tabs characters.

  If :width is non-nil, then it will override the modes given tab-width.

  If :extra-vars is non-nill, then it shall be a list of additional mode-specific
  variables that need to be assigned the desired indentation-width.")

  (defun mango-set-indentation-settings ()
    "Apply the indentation settings specified by ‘mango-indentation-settings’."
    (interactive)
    (dolist (plist mango-indentation-settings)
      (let* ((mode (car plist))
             (args (cdr plist))
             (width (or (plist-get args :width) (default-value 'tab-width)))
             (spaces (or (plist-get args :spaces) (not (default-value 'indent-tabs-mode))))
             (extra (plist-get args :extra-vars))
             (callback
              (λ (indent-tabs-mode (when spaces -1))
                 (setq-local tab-width width
                             evil-shift-width width)
                 (dolist (var extra) (set var width)))))
        (add-hook (mango-mode-to-hook mode) callback 95)
        (add-hook (mango-mode-to-hook (mango-mode-to-ts-mode mode)) callback 95))))

  (mango-set-indentation-settings)

#+END_SRC

*** Git Integration

I like to use Magit for my ~git~ integration.  I do believe it is the best ~git~
client ever made for any editor ever.  Anyone who disagrees has simply never
used Emacs before.  The only command that really needs binding is
~magit-status~.  All other commands I will end up executing from there with the
transient commands.  I also install ~magit-todos~.  It’s a super minimal package
that simply finds all the TODOs in a repository and displays them in the
~magit-status~ buffer so that I don’t forget them.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package magit
    :bind ("C-c g" . magit-status)
    :custom
    (magit-display-buffer-function
     #'magit-display-buffer-same-window-except-diff-v1))

  (use-package magit-todos
    :after magit
    :init (magit-todos-mode))

  (defun mango--magit-status ()
    (interactive)
    (thread-last
      (project-current t)
      (project-root)
      (magit-status)))

  (require 'project)
  (add-to-list 'project-switch-commands '(mango--magit-status "Git Status" ?g))

#+END_SRC

*** Tree-Sitter

Emacs 29 brings native support for Tree-Sitter!  This doesn’t just mean better-
and faster syntax highlighting, but also things such as structured editing.  In
order to make use of Tree-Sitter the language parsers /do/ need to be installed,
so let’s do that.  Tree-Sitter doesn’t check to see if the language grammars are
already installed unfortunately, but it’s easy enough to do manually.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq treesit-language-source-alist
        '((bash     "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash")
          (c        "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c")
          (cpp      "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp")
          (css      "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-css")
          (elisp    "https://github.com/Wilfred/tree-sitter-elisp")
          (go       "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go")
          (html     "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-html")
          (json     "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-json")
          (make     "https://github.com/alemuller/tree-sitter-make")
          (markdown "https://github.com/ikatyang/tree-sitter-markdown")
          (python   "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python")
          (toml     "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-toml")
          (yaml     "https://github.com/ikatyang/tree-sitter-yaml")))

  ;; Automatically install missing grammars
  (thread-last
    (mapcar #'car treesit-language-source-alist)
    (seq-remove #'treesit-language-available-p)
    (mapc #'treesit-install-language-grammar))

#+END_SRC

I also prefer to have as many things syntax highlighted as possible when using
tree-sitter, with the ability to fully customize faces (or turn off faces I
don’t want highlighted).

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq treesit-font-lock-level 4)

#+END_SRC

*** Language Server Protocol

LSP is an absolute necessity when programming.  Luckily ~lsp-mode~ has us
covered.  There is Eglot which is now built in to Emacs 29, but it was giving me
some really weird issues so I won’t be using that for now.  ~lsp-bridge~ also
looked promising but I didn’t like it too much.  Also ~yasnippet~ is dead, so
why they won’t just move on from it I have no idea.  I’ll just disable snippets.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package lsp-mode
    :commands (lsp lsp-deferred)
    :custom
    (lsp-enable-snippet nil)
    :init
    (setq lsp-keymap-prefix "C-c l"))

#+END_SRC

*** Emmet-Mode

This mode is super useful for writing HTML.  It lets me expand something like
‘figure>(figcaption>code)+pre’ into an actual HTML structure.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package emmet-mode
    :hook (html-mode . emmet-mode))

#+END_SRC

*** Compilation Buffer

Emacs allows you to compile your project with =C-x p c= which is cool and all,
but it annoyingly creates a compilation buffer that I need to manually close
every time.  I would like to have this buffer, but only when things go wrong.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango--compilation-make-window ()
    "Make a new vertical split for the compilation buffer if such a buffer doesn’t
  already exist."
    (unless (get-buffer "*compilation*")
      (split-window-vertically)))

  (defun mango--compilation-exit-autoclose (status code msg)
    "Automatically bury the compilation buffer and delete the compilation window
  if compilation was successful."
    (when (and (eq status 'exit)
               (zerop code))
      (bury-buffer)
      (delete-window (get-buffer-window "*compilation*")))
    (cons msg code))

  (add-hook 'compilation-mode-hook #'mango--compilation-make-window)
  (setq compilation-exit-message-function #'mango--compilation-exit-autoclose)

#+END_SRC

** User Interface

The default Emacs UI is fucking atrocious — we need to make it better.

*** Shorter Prompts

For some reason emacs has both the ~y-or-n-p~ and ~yes-or-no-p~ functions.  I do
not like having to spell out full words — /y/ or /n/ is good enough for me — so
let’s just redefine ~yes-or-no-p~.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (fset #'yes-or-no-p #'y-or-n-p)

#+END_SRC

*** Disable Basic UI Modes

Emacs has a lot of UI modes that are enabled by default to make life easier for
the novice user.  I am not the novice user and would rather these modes never
turned on ever again.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (menu-bar-mode -1)
  (scroll-bar-mode -1)
  (tool-bar-mode -1)
  (tooltip-mode -1)

#+END_SRC

*** Warnings

I am typically not a fan around being warned about things unless something is
actually breaking or going wrong.

In order, these options disable the following warnings:

1. Opening large files
2. Following symbolic links
3. Adding advice to functions

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq large-file-warning-threshold nil
        vc-follow-symlinks t
        ad-redefinition-action 'accept)

#+END_SRC

*** Visible Bell

Why not?  I might disable this later.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq visible-bell t)

#+END_SRC

*** Scrolling

By default, scrolling is really bad.  Luckily we can improve it a lot; there’s
even a pixel-precision scrolling mode!

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(1 ((shift) . 1))
        mouse-wheel-progressive-speed nil
        mouse-wheel-follow-mouse t
        scroll-step 1)
  ;; (pixel-scroll-precision-mode)

#+END_SRC

*** Auto Reverting Buffers

This is just good to have all of the time; you should never be looking at a file
whose state was changed by an external process, and not see those changes *instantly*.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers t)
  (global-auto-revert-mode)

#+END_SRC

*** Highlight Matching Parenthesis

This is generally a good thing — especially when writing lisp code — but I don’t
want this /everywhere/.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defvar mango-highlight-matching-parenthesis-modes
    '(prog-mode conf-mode)
    "A list of modes for which the parenthesis that pairs up with the parenthesis
  at point should be highlighted.")

  (show-paren-mode -1)

  (dolist (mode mango-highlight-matching-parenthesis-modes)
    (add-hook (mango-mode-to-hook mode) #'show-paren-local-mode))

#+END_SRC

*** Line- and Column Numbers

I like to have line- and column numbers in my modeline.  I find them to be very
useful to have.  I used to also like to have the current line number on the left
of the screen, but I don’t really need that information.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (line-number-mode)
  (column-number-mode)

#+END_SRC

*** Fonts

My favorite monospace font has got to be /Iosevka/.  It’s good looking, it’s far
more compact than the usual american-sized monospace fonts, and you can
customize just about every character from loads of variants.  I have my own
custom compiled variant called /Iosevka Smooth/.

On the proportional side of things, I am not really sure what font to use.
/Vollkorn/ tends to be my go-to serif-font on the web, but I dunno how well it
translates to Emacs.  I am also a bit fan of Ysabeau for sans-serif.  I need to
play around with this.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defvar mango-monospace-font '("Iosevka Smooth" :weight regular :height 162)
    "The default monospace font to use.  This is a list containing a font name,
  font weight, and font height in that order.")

  (defvar mango-proportional-font '("Ysabeau" :weight light :height 180)
    "The default proportional font to use.  This is a list containing a font name,
  font weight, and font height in that order.")

#+END_SRC

Actually /setting/ the fonts is a bit tricky.  I don’t really fully understand
why it works like this, but something with the whole server/client model of
Emacs is really fucking with this, so we need to add a hook to set the font for
every frame.  We also can’t forget the frame that’s actually running this code.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango-set-fonts ()
    "Set the fonts specified by ‘mango-monospace-font’ and ‘mango-proportional-font’."
    (interactive)
    (let* ((mono-family (car mango-monospace-font))
           (mono-props  (cdr mango-monospace-font))
           (prop-family (car mango-proportional-font))
           (prop-props  (cdr mango-proportional-font))
           (mono-weight (plist-get mono-props :weight))
           (mono-height (plist-get mono-props :height))
           (prop-weight (plist-get prop-props :weight))
           (prop-height (plist-get prop-props :height)))
      (set-face-attribute 'default nil
                          :font mono-family
                          :weight mono-weight
                          :height mono-height)
      (set-face-attribute 'fixed-pitch nil
                          :font mono-family
                          :weight mono-weight
                          :height mono-height)
      (set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil
                          :font prop-family
                          :weight prop-weight
                          :height prop-height)))

  (add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions (lambda (_) (mango-set-fonts)))
  (mango-set-fonts)

#+END_SRC

*** Emacs Theme

I previously ran the ~sanityinc-tomorrow-eighties~ theme, but I now run my own
custom theme.  I do like to keep the older theme around though as a reference.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow)
  (load-theme 'mango t)

#+END_SRC

*** Fringes

It’s also nice to have fringes!

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (set-fringe-style (cons 32 32))

#+END_SRC

*** Line Highlighting

This is just something I personally like having.  It makes it very easy for me
to figure out where my point is at all times.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (global-hl-line-mode)

#+END_SRC

*** Frame Management

Prot has made a fantastic package known as ~beframe~.  It allows you to have
each frame have its own buffer list.  This is insanely useful for keeping my
buffers nice and organized.  It’s also useful for having a way to (for example)
kill all buffers you were using in a frame before closing it.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango-beframe-delete-frame ()
    "Kill all the buffers within the current beframe buffer list and then destroy
  the frame."
    (interactive)
    (cl-loop with buffers = (cl-loop for frame in (frame-list)
                                     unless (eq frame (selected-frame))
                                     append (beframe-buffer-list frame))
             for buffer in (beframe-buffer-list)
             unless (member buffer buffers)
             do (kill-buffer buffer))
    (delete-frame))

  (use-package beframe
    :bind ([remap delete-frame] . mango-beframe-delete-frame)
    :init
    (beframe-mode))

#+END_SRC

*** Transparency

Transparency is totally useless, but it looks cool.  Luckily transparent
background support was added in Emacs 29!

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defvar mango-alpha-background 90
    "The opacity of a graphical Emacs frame, ranging from 0–100.  A value of 0 is
  fully transparent while a value of 100 is fully opaque.")

  (defun mango-set-alpha-background (value)
    "Set the current frames background opacity to VALUE."
    (interactive "NOpacity: ")
    (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha-background value))

  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist (cons 'alpha-background mango-alpha-background))

#+END_SRC

** Extra Modes

Some modes aren’t installed by default with Emacs, so let’s fetch them

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package git-modes)
  (use-package graphviz-dot-mode)
  (use-package markdown-mode)

#+END_SRC

** Auto-Start Modes

Some modes need to be manually configured to automatically start when opening a
file with a certain file extension.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (require 'rust-ts-mode)
  (require 'yaml-ts-mode)

  (dolist (pair '(("\\.py\\'"    . python-ts-mode)
                  ("\\.rs\\'"    . rust-ts-mode)
                  ("\\.ya?ml\\'" . yaml-ts-mode)))
    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist pair))

#+END_SRC

** Customization Settings

Emacs has a /customization variable/ that contains various configuration-related
settings that are set by different commands, as well as the customization UI.  I
would rather have these saved in a temporary file since any customizations I
make that I would like to have be persistent will be explicitly written into
this file.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq custom-file
        (expand-file-name
         (format "emacs-custom-%s.el" (user-uid))
         temporary-file-directory))
  (load custom-file t)

#+END_SRC

** Backup Files

It’s always good to have backups.  I would know — I’ve wiped both =~= and
=~/.config= before!  Despite the name, ~version-control~ actually just adds
version numbers to the backup names — it doesn’t start using a VCS.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq delete-old-versions t
        version-control t
        kept-new-versions 2
        kept-old-versions 6)

#+END_SRC

** Mode Specific Settings

*** Org-Mode

**** Fontify Blockquotes

I want to be able to customize the faces of blockquotes, so we need to enable
that setting with ~org-mode~

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setopt org-fontify-quote-and-verse-blocks t)

#+END_SRC

**** Visual Intentation

I really enjoy using ~org-indent-mode~.  It indents the contents of the
org-buffer to keep everything looking nice and structured.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-indent-mode)

#+END_SRC

*** Auto-Fill-Mode

I do like to use this mode, especially when writing.  I also want it when coding
/sometimes/, but not always.  Overall it’s a pretty useful mode — but I am super
mixed on when I do and -don’t want it.  I always want it in ~org-mode~ though.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (setq-default fill-column 80)
  (add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'auto-fill-mode)

#+END_SRC

** Auto-Directories

When creating new files, the parent directories often don’t exist and I need to
make them manually with =M-x make-directory RET RET=.  I would prefer that these
directories just get created automatically.

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (defun mango--auto-create-directories
      (original-function filename &rest args)
    "Automatically create and delete parent directories of files.  This is an
  ‘:override’ advice for ‘find-file’ and friends.  It automatically creates the
  parent directory (or directories) of the file being visited, if necessary.  It
  also sets a buffer-local variable so that the user will be prompted to delete
  the newly created directories if they kill the buffer without saving it."
    (let (dirs-to-delete)
      (let* ((dir-to-create (file-name-directory filename))
             (current-dir dir-to-create))
        ;; We want to go up each directory component and add them to
        ;; ‘dirs-to-delete’ individually.
        (while (not (file-exists-p current-dir))
          (push current-dir dirs-to-delete)
          (setq current-dir (file-name-directory
                             (directory-file-name current-dir))))

        (unless (file-exists-p dir-to-create)
          (make-directory dir-to-create t)))

      ;; Use ‘prog1’ so that we maintain the original return value
      (prog1 (apply original-function filename args)
        (when dirs-to-delete
          (setq-local mango--dirs-to-delete (reverse dirs-to-delete))

          ;; When we kill the buffer we want to ask if we should delete parent
          ;; directories *unless* the buffer was saved, in which case we don’t
          ;; want to do anything.
          (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook #'mango--delete-directories-if-appropriate
                    t t)
          (add-hook 'after-save-hook #'mango--remove-auto-directory-hooks t t)))))

  (dolist (command #'(find-file
                      find-alternate-file
                      write-file))
    (advice-add command :around #'mango--auto-create-directories))

  (defun mango--delete-directories-if-appropriate ()
    "Delete parent directories if appropriate.  This is a function for
  ‘kill-buffer-hook’.  If ‘mango--auto-create-directories’ created the directory
  containing the file for the current buffer automatically, then offer to delete
  it.  Otherwise, do nothing.  Also clean up related hooks."
    (unless (file-exists-p buffer-file-name)
      (dolist (dir-to-delete mango--dirs-to-delete)
        (when (and (stringp dir-to-delete)
                   (file-exists-p dir-to-delete)
                   (y-or-n-p (format "Also delete directory ‘%s’?"
                                     (directory-file-name dir-to-delete))))
          (delete-directory dir-to-delete)))))

  (defun mango--remove-auto-directory-hooks ()
    "Clean up directory-deletion hooks, if necessary."
    (remove-hook 'kill-buffer-hook #'mango--delete-directories-if-appropriate t)
    (remove-hook 'after-save-hook #'mango--remove-auto-directory-hooks t))

#+END_SRC

** Email

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp

  (use-package mu4e
    :ensure nil
    :custom
    (user-full-name "Thomas Voss")
    (mu4e-change-filenames-when-moving t)
    (mu4e-get-mail-command "mbsync -a -c /home/thomas/.config/isync/mbsyncrc")
    (mu4e-maildir "~/mail")
    (sendmail-program "/usr/bin/msmtp")
    (send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
    (message-sendmail-f-is-evil t)
    (message-sendmail-extra-arguments '("--read-envelope-from"))
    (message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
    :config
    (setq mango--mu4e-personal-context
          (make-mu4e-context
           :name "Personal"
           :match-func
           (lambda (msg)
             (when msg
               (string-prefix-p "/mail@thomasvoss.com" (mu4e-message-field msg :maildir))))
           :vars '((user-mail-address  . "mail@thomasvoss.com")
                   (mu4e-drafts-folder . "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Drafts")
                   (mu4e-sent-folder   . "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Sent")
                   (mu4e-refile-folder . "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Archive")
                   (mu4e-trash-folder  . "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Junk")
                   (mu4e-maildir-shortcuts . '((:name "Inbox"   :maildir "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Inbox"   :key ?i)
                                               (:name "Archive" :maildir "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Archive" :key ?a)
                                               (:name "Drafts"  :maildir "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Drafts"  :key ?d)
                                               (:name "Sent"    :maildir "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Sent"    :key ?s)
                                               (:name "Junk"    :maildir "/mail@thomasvoss.com/Junk"    :key ?j))))))
    (setq mango--mu4e-legacy-context
          (make-mu4e-context
           :name "Legacy"
           :match-func
           (lambda (msg)
             (when msg
               (string-prefix-p "/thomasvoss@live.com" (mu4e-message-field msg :maildir))))
           :vars '((user-mail-address  . "thomasvoss@live.com")
                   (user-full-name     . "Thomas Voss")
                   (mu4e-drafts-folder . "/thomasvoss@live.com/Drafts")
                   (mu4e-sent-folder   . "/thomasvoss@live.com/Sent")
                   (mu4e-refile-folder . "/thomasvoss@live.com/Archive")
                   (mu4e-trash-folder  . "/thomasvoss@live.com/Junk")
                   (mu4e-maildir-shortcuts . '((:name "Inbox"   :maildir "/thomasvoss@live.com/Inbox"   :key ?i)
                                               (:name "POP"     :maildir "/thomasvoss@live.com/POP"     :key ?p)
                                               (:name "Archive" :maildir "/thomasvoss@live.com/Archive" :key ?a)
                                               (:name "Drafts"  :maildir "/thomasvoss@live.com/Drafts"  :key ?d)
                                               (:name "Sent"    :maildir "/thomasvoss@live.com/Sent"    :key ?s)
                                               (:name "Junk"    :maildir "/thomasvoss@live.com/Junk"    :key ?j))))))
    (setq mango--mu4e-humanwave-context
          (make-mu4e-context
           :name "Humanwave"
           :match-func
           (lambda (msg)
             (when msg
               (string-prefix-p "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl" (mu4e-message-field msg :maildir))))
           :vars '((user-mail-address  . "thomas.voss@humanwave.nl")
                   (user-full-name     . "Thomas Voss")
                   (mu4e-drafts-folder . "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/Drafts")
                   (mu4e-sent-folder   . "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/Sent Mail")
                   (mu4e-refile-folder . "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/All Mail")
                   (mu4e-trash-folder  . "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/Trash")
                   (mu4e-maildir-shortcuts . '((:name "Inbox"   :maildir "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/Inbox"             :key ?i)
                                               (:name "Archive" :maildir "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/All Mail"  :key ?a)
                                               (:name "Drafts"  :maildir "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/Drafts"    :key ?d)
                                               (:name "Sent"    :maildir "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/Sent Mail" :key ?s)
                                               (:name "Junk"    :maildir "/thomas.voss@humanwave.nl/[Gmail]/Junk"      :key ?j))))))

    (setq mu4e-contexts (list mango--mu4e-personal-context
                              mango--mu4e-legacy-context
                              mango--mu4e-humanwave-context)))

#+END_SRC