Emacs 24 Config

General Notes

Packages come from el-get, which is built on the ELPA manager included in Emacs 24. Package libraries in use: ELPA, gnu, marmalade, and tromey.

Initial Setup

1. > cd emacs.d > git submodule init > git submodule update
2. Open emacs, maybe several times to get all the packages loaded and installed.

Outside dependencies

TAGS

I use ctags to generate a TAGS file for Ruby. This allows following a method name to its definitation

1. get ctags that supports Ruby. The one from homebrew does. > brew install ctags
2. A couple bash aliases to help
   • alias ctags=”`brew –prefix`/bin/ctags”
   • alias rtags=”ctags -a -e -f TAGS –tag-relative -R . –exclude=-.git –exclude=log *”
3. M-. your bad self

Aspell

If you want to use the spell check (ispell), you’ll need you some aspell. Brew again: > brew install aspell –lang=EN

Bazaar

You’ll need this if you are looking to get any number of Emacs packages. It’s the source control used by a number of them. > brew install bzr

Passwords

You can have a file encrypted that you store passwords and the like in. The setup I have asked for your password when emacs loads. Doesn’t have to be that way.

1. > brew isntall gnupg
2. Any file with the extension .gpg will be encrypted. It’ll give you options to encrypt.
3. I use key-value variables: (setq blog-login “foo” blog-passw “bar) Elsewhere: (setq blogger-server-username blog-login) …

Some links to help get it setup

• emacs-fu how-to
• GNU PG instructions

multimarkdown

If you ‘brew install multimarkdown’, you can generate html from a markdown file. (C-c C-c m)