From 4ae2cd629b9f16cca4960b9e6257fc841c5f82d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amin Bandali Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:58:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add some documentation [emacs] automatically load counsel after 1.5 seconds --- README.md | 15 --------------- README.org | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ init.org | 14 ++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README.md create mode 100644 README.org diff --git a/README.md b/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 353de0d..0000000 --- a/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -dotfiles -======== - -Use [GNU Stow](http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) to symlink the config for each -application to their corresponding folder. For instance, `stow vim`. - -GTK Theme: - -- GTK2: [Greybird](https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird) -- GTK3: [Minwaita](https://github.com/godlyranchdressing/Minwaita) - -*P.S.* do NOT stow `other`, as it's not meant to be copied/symlinked in the home -folder. Some should be copied to a location in root, or just be run to perform -setup. I should revisit the structure of `other` some time to make it consistent -with the rest of repo. diff --git a/README.org b/README.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d837064 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.org @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +#+title: dotfiles + +This is my dotfiles repository; i.e. where I keep the configuration +files of all the pieces of software I use. + +My GNU Emacs configuration is in [[file:init.org][init.org]], which is a literate Org +mode file that gets tangled (i.e. exported) to =init.el= using +=org-babel=. Emacs packages are installed and managed using [[https://github.com/emacscollective/borg][Borg]], +which helps me have a fully reproducible setup. + +The configurations for all the other programs I use is located in +[[file:rc.org][rc.org]]. Similar to my =init.org= file for Emacs, is also written in +Org mode; and the configuration for each program is tangled to a file +at its expected location on disk. + +Note: even though GitHub has a decent renderer for Org mode files, I +/strongly/ suggest using Emacs itself for browsing through the org +files. + +P.S. my previous =stow=-based setup along with my brief experiment +with [[https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el][straight.el]] can be accessed from the =straight-exp= branch. diff --git a/init.org b/init.org index e2c87b3..e5149a3 100644 --- a/init.org +++ b/init.org @@ -22,6 +22,19 @@ to my init time; which is unacceptable for me: I use Emacs as my window manager (via EXWM) and coming from bspwm, I'm too used to having fast startup times. +To use this config for your Emacs, first you need to clone this repo, +then bootstrap Borg, tell Borg to retrieve package submodules, and +byte-compiled the packages. Something along these lines should work: + +#+begin_src sh +git clone https://github.com/aminb/dotfiles ~/.emacs.d +cd ~/.emacs.d +make bootstrap-borg +make tangle-init +make bootstrap +make build +#+end_src + * Contents :toc_1:noexport: - [[#about][About]] @@ -545,6 +558,7 @@ There's no way I could top that, so I won't attempt to. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (use-package counsel + :defer 1.5 :bind (([remap execute-extended-command] . counsel-M-x) ([remap find-file] . counsel-find-file) ("s-r" . counsel-recentf) -- 2.20.1