Context

After a successful run with Spacemacs as my main emacs distribution, the time came to write my own config to avoid having to load features I don’t need and have more flexibility to implement useful snippets I glean on the web.

Architecture

Using org-mode to organize the files using literate programming, I decided to breakdown the configuration by theme and language using the following file structure.

|-- completion
|-- core
|-- projects
|-- snippets
|-- startup
|-- templates
`-- terminal

Where:

• completion contains the configuration for completion packages like ivy and counsel, and company;
• core contains packages related to editor-wide behaviour like appearance, fonts, etc
• projects contains packages related to project-based packages like projectile, magit, wakatime, and treemacs.
• startup contains packages like dashboard.
• and so on…

The full configuration with up-to-date packages and associated configurations can be found in this GitHub repository. The idea behind this config is to allow for maximum flexibility when adding support for a given language, file format, etc … all while still keeping each piece of configuration findable.

Sources

David Wilson provided some nice pointers, such as the Palenight theme. Gregory J. Stein also provided a very nice pointer to organizing an annotated bibliography using org-mode. Other sources for each trick can be found in the corresponding org file themselves.