My Basic Emacs Setup Process

May 2022

There are notes on what I did to setup emacs via spacemacs on my mac (lots of macs there)

Installed emacs with:

brew install emacs

then ran this to get Spacemacs config stuff in place

git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d

via: https://www.spacemacs.org/#

Setup to use 'vim' style in the initial setup (I don't remember the text of it)

Edit ~/.spacemacs

Added all this to dotspacemacs-configuration-layers

- org - for org mode - python - for python to work in org mode via babble - javascript - for javascript to work in org mode via babble

Tried osx to get the option key to work as the meta key but it didn't work.

Instead, I used this in iTerm2

Preferences > Profiles > Keys > Left Option Key

And set it to: Esc+

(Did Esc+ instead of Meta based on the emacs wiki

To get javascript code blocks working in code blocks use js instead of javascript

e.g.

or this to see the output that prints to the console

#_+begin_src js :results output

Added afternoon as the first item under dotspacemacs-themes to use that theme

(This did not require adding the Themes Megabuck layer

Considering: changing these from SPC to , to set the leader to the comma:

dotspacemacs-leader-key
  dotspacemacs-emacs-leader-key

Added deft for nvalt style stuff (hopefully) by adding

deft

dotspacemacs-configuration-layers

NOTE: I've removed deft, going with helm for getting the grimoire lined up.

Set:

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
      ...
  )

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
    (setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)
    (setq deft-directory "~/Desktop/Grimoire")
    (require 'org-tempo)
  )

NOTE: I removed deft so this is no longer in play. I'm using helm directly now

The (require 'org-tempo) was what got it working so you can type <s then TAB as a snippet that auto-expands into a source block

Via this](https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/11798#issuecomment-504739959) and the note that I missed in [the docs

Tried removing helm and added compleseus to dotspacemacs-configuration-layers, but switched back to helm

This is what I had in the define dotspacemacs/user-config section

(compleseus :variables
              compleseus-engine 'selectrum)

This is a goal to get a dynamic completion setup for comlpeting-read in the mini buffer to use for the grimoire (with the dynamic update it doesn't seem like there's a way to use an external search)

That didn't work and I got helm to work so I remove selectrum.

Note: installed brew install ripgrep to see about using rg with: https://manueluberti.eu/emacs/2020/02/22/ripgrepping-with-helm/

Not actually doing that, but keeping it here as a note for the process

Added

shell-scripts

dotspacemacs-configuration-layers

This lets literate programming with with:

#_+begin_src bash 
  echo "test"

There is a problem with ~/.emacs.d/.cache/savehist getting huge.

Ater messing around with a bunch of big files it grew to 500+MB. That was causing Emacs/Spacemacs to hang repeatedly for several seconds.

Deleteing that files seems to have fixed things, but I still need to figure out how to set it so that it doesn't become a problem.

installed ipython via pip3 install ipython

tried to do that to get outptu moving faster in the emacs terminal window, but it didn't work. just doing stuff in org mode source blocks for now

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