Emacs

Emacs is another very powerful text editor. Contrary to vim, which was built for text-editing alone (but has been hacked into doing other things), emacs is more of an operating system. It uses LISP on the backend rather than vimscript. Though not modal like vim by default, emacs has an evil-mode extension, which enables vim commands and hotkeys within emacs.

Personally, I'm considering making the change to emacs for two reasons:

• emacs-daemon allows you to share a single emacs session (using multiple files) with several separate client-windows. This make multi-monitor coding much more friendly.
• many of the most popular vim extensions have emacs counterparts
• more native shell, and other programs can run within emacs. (ex: w3m/mutt/irssi)

TODO:

fix this page, it's yikesey

Install

linux

locations
~/.emacs		main emacs config file
~/.emacs.d		emacs packages are installed here

sudo pacman -S emacs

Tutorials

vim to emacs

https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-fourteen-days.html

Terminology

Terminology
emacs	vim		description
frame	window		A window to the WM. Contains splits.
window			A clone of the current buffer. All properties are identical between all views of buffer EXCEPT for the cursor-point.
indirect-buffer	split		A totally independent copy of the current buffer. Text is shared/updated, but everything else is independent.

Basics

emacs basic usage

elisp

Minor Modes

emacs x-symbol

alter display of characters by revel (like vim conceal)

Base Config

TODO:

get rid of this whole section once I have a real config

Package Manager

Manual Package Download
Provided that you have the package-archives variable (defined below) set up, you can search/download from the package-archives using:

<M-x>   package-list
<C-s>  <package-you-are-looking-for>

Automated Package Download
Automating package downloading from .emacs can be done with the following setup:

	;; Define Package Sources, Initialize Package Manager
	(setq package-archives '(("gnu"       .  "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
	                         ("org"       .  "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")
	                         ("marmalade" .  "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
	                         ("melpa"     .  "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")
                           ;("melpa-stable" . "http://melpa-stable.milkbox.net/packages/")
									))
	(require 'package)
	(package-initialize)


	;; Define Packages to install
	(setq required-pkgs '(
								 evil
								 evil-tabs
								 evil-leader
								 evil-search-highlight-persist

								 airline-themes

								 neotree
								 projectile
								 grizzl

								 darktooth-theme
								 gruvbox-theme
							 ))


	;; Auto-Install Packages
	(require 'cl)

	(setq pkgs-to-install
	      (let ((uninstalled-pkgs (remove-if 'package-installed-p required-pkgs)))
	        (remove-if-not '(lambda (pkg) (y-or-n-p (format "Package %s is missing. Install it? " pkg))) uninstalled-pkgs)))
	
	(when (> (length pkgs-to-install) 0)
	  (package-refresh-contents)
	  (dolist (pkg pkgs-to-install)
	    (package-install pkg)))

Keybinding

	;; Evil-Mode Keybinding
	(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "C-h") 'evil-window-left)


	;; Binding Multiple commands to a single Key-Sequence
	(define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "M-h") (lambda () (interactive)  (backward-char) (evil-normal-state)  ))

	;; Binding Key-Sequence to another Key-Sequence