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Here lives my own configuration for GNU Emacs, blending all the best shit I can find, making a conscious effort for speed, robustness and above all, skillfulness. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Aero is not intended as a general distribution. It undergoes constant evolution; bindings, settings and packages change with no warning and little to no documentation. This project is open source as a reference or source of ideas. Use at your own risk.
To get started with Emacs, I highly recommend the distribution responsible for hooking me in: Spacemacs.
"Configuring Emacs is more of a lifestyle choice than a task that one completes."
— Stephen Ramsey
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"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU Emacs would never make a good program."
— Linus Torvalds
When I first started using Emacs, I took full advantage of Spacemacs, so the architecture of that project has shaped the way I think about editing. As such, the majority of Aero revolves around a single leader key, SPC. For example, SPC SPC is the same as M-x, SPC f w (for file write) saves the buffer to disk.
Aero also provides a "mode leader", SPC ,, which contains bindings for specific major modes. For example, in Python mode, SPC , s b sends the entire buffer to Elpy's inferior Python shell and executes it, and in restclient, SPC , RET runs the HTTP query at point.
"Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor." — ancient Vi proverb
For everything else, Aero makes extensive use of Evil, providing the user with modifier-key-free modal editing, though the majority of Emacs bindings remain available. Emacs keybindings belong in the dark ages where they originated. They might work for RMS, but I can only hold CTRL for so long.
Aero replaces the default awful color scheme with the eponymous aero-theme, which pulls loose inspiration from the Tao themes and colors inspired by northern Minnesota in Autumn. The theme package also contains aero-dark, which incorporates further inspiration from my own ClearNight Retro theme for Atom (may it rest in peace).
With Aero, you'll also find a custom improved mode line which works with any theme (though it looks great with aero-light and aero-dark). Rather than getting cluttered with info from every mode under the sun, the Aero mode line displays the current editing mode, file status (changed, saved, locked), filename, file size, line number at point, progression through the file (percentage), the remote hostname (if using TRAMP) and the current major mode.
Aero evolves as a cutting-edge tool and focuses on working with the latest version of Emacs, but you can generally assume support for the last version too.
git clone https://gitlab.com/thornjad/aero.git ~/.config/emacs && cd ~/.config/emacs
make initThe make init will install dependencies needed for LSP servers, using any tools already available on the system (e.g. it will not error if opam isn't installed), as well as dependencies like graphviz and lsp-booster. It will also set up and update any submodules required for Aero.
Upon starting up Emacs for the first time, further third-party packages will automatically download and install via straight.el. Subsequent startups should take one or two seconds. If you encounter any errors at this stage, try restarting Emacs and/or opening a bug.
- https://github.com/thornjad/aero.git
- https://gitlab.com/thornjad/aero.git
- https://framagit.org/thornjad/aero.git
- https://codeberg.org/thornjad/aero.git
Aero includes some convenient scripting to install Emacs on Linux and Mac, with both a stable and cutting-edge version supported for Mac.
make linuxThe linux target will call linux.zsh, which installs requirements, configures, builds and installs the latest version of Emacs.
Features:
- Native compilation
- Native JSON support
- Elisp threads
- Tree-sitter
Unlike Linux, installing and running Emacs on MacOS can be flaky, so several installation options are provided. Use the one that works best on your machine.
build-emacs-macos: This is the preferred option, installing the development version of Emacs with native compilation and XWidgets support.build-emacs-macos-stable: A fallback option, installing the mainline release version of Emacs, with native compilation and XWidgets support.build-emacs-macos-minimal: Same asbuild-emacs-macosbut without native compilation.build-emacs-macos-stable-minimal: Same asbuild-emacs-macos-stablebut without native compilation.build-emacs-cask: Install the standard Homebrew Caskemacs-nightlypackage, still cutting-edge but should be more stable than the previous options.build-emacs-cask-stable: The final fallback, the standard Homebrew Caskemacspackage.- Note that Aero does not profess support for the pre-installed version of Emacs on MacOS; it is infrequently updated and Aero focuses on the development version of Emacs.
Your environment may require specific configuration, such as secret keys, environment variables, or work-specific functions, which should not appear in a git repository. Aero features the ability to read an init.local.el when it exists in the same directory as Aero's init.el. This local file may contain arbitrary ELisp, which is executed after everything else in Aero.
Like the Borg, Aero amalgamates macros, functions, bindings and packages modified from or inspired by a plethora of developers. Special thanks to these fantastic people, with links to the invaluable resource they provide:
Copyright © 2016-2024 Jade Michael Thornton
Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
The software is provided "as is" and the author disclaims all warranties with regard to this software including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software.