Starting Emacs & the config file
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I actually start emacs as a daemon service when entering Linux. This requires a little setup which is not all that difficult. I don't know which version or distribution of linux you use. But the line that starts emacs as a daemon is this:$ /usr/bin/emacs24 --daemonYou can add this line to "Startup Applications" in Ubuntu. Like so:
By doing this emacs is always running in the background.
I then call any emacs session with:
$ emacsclient -cWhich I setup in the "Main Menu" like this:
I usually also set to an alias on my system for easy access, like this:
alias em='emacsclient -c'The very first lines of my .emacs also contains the line:
(server-start)Which ensures that emacs then sets itself as a server that can serve the emacsclient requests.
This way I always have emacs running as a server, the same instance running wherever and whenever I need it.
Startup Procedure
When emacs starts up, it (usually) reads a configuration file called .emacs.Emacs users use this file to fine tune their emacs configuration and load various applications, modules, and utility functions.
It has become quite a fashion for people to share these config files on sites like github and bitbucket. Anyone can the download the .emacs files of another user to incorporate useful code into their own configurations.
I have decided to go another way. What I will attempt to do here is describe my current strategies.
Creating your .emacs
I actually keep most of my configuration in an org-mode file called init.org and it is this file that is loaded at the end of my .emacs.With the lines:
(require 'org) ;load org-mode (require 'ob-tangle) ;allow literate programming tangling (require 'cl) ;allow common-lisp style functions (org-babel-load-file "~/.emacs.d/init.org") ;load the init file with source codeTo continue please visit init.org.
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| 22nov16 | admin |