[emacs] more background info

[~bandali/configs] / init.org

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@@ -9,9 +9,21 @@
 :END:
 
 This org file is my literate configuration for GNU Emacs, and is
-tangled to [[./init.el][init.el]]. Packages are installed and managed using [[https://github.com/emacscollective/borg][Borg]].
-
-** Installation
+tangled to [[./init.el][init.el]]. Packages are installed and managed using
+[[https://github.com/emacscollective/borg][Borg]]. Over the years, I've taken inspiration from configurations of
+many different people. Some of the configurations that I can remember
+off the top of my head are:
+
+- [[https://github.com/dieggsy/dotfiles][dieggsy/dotfiles]]: literate Emacs and dotfiles configuration, uses
+  straight.el for managing packages
+- [[https://github.com/dakra/dmacs][dakra/dmacs]]: literate Emacs configuration, using Borg for managing
+  packages
+- [[http://pages.sachachua.com/.emacs.d/Sacha.html][Sacha Chua's literate Emacs configuration]]
+- [[https://github.com/dakrone/eos][dakrone/eos]]
+- Ryan Rix's [[http://doc.rix.si/cce/cce.html][Complete Computing Environment]] ([[http://doc.rix.si/projects/fsem.html][about cce]])
+- [[https://github.com/jwiegley/dot-emacs][jwiegley/dot-emacs]]: nix-based configuration
+- [[https://github.com/wasamasa/dotemacs][wasamasa/dotemacs]]
+- [[https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs][Doom Emacs]]
 
 I'd like to have a fully reproducible Emacs setup (part of the reason
 why I store my configuration in this repository) but unfortunately out
@@ -22,6 +34,21 @@ 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.
 
+** Installation
+
+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
+
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@@ -545,6 +572,7 @@ 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)