cemacs is a configuration for emacs centered around c based language development,
useful code auto-formatting and highlighing packages are included improves readability
and reduces repetetive formatting work, as well as easing debugging somewhat.
This project strives to stay close to an standard emacs setup whilst
adjusting many behaviors to be more user friendly and efficient
This is my personal config, and its gone through a huge amount of iterations, currently it's very intentionally geared for me, and only me.
However, despite this, effort has been put into try to keep the major features as close to vanilla, or using as many direct vanilla mechanisms as possible. There are quite a few reasons for this. One is that it helps with familiarity with a non-configured emacs, which is helpful to use from time to time, especially due to the startup time.
Another is that a lot of vanilla mechanisms are just plain better and more robust than most of the re-implementations people write, so before changing anything, it's good to consider what is wrong first, and if all the avenues have been explored.
Another reason is a lot of emacs functionality assumes other parts of the
ecosystem exists, for example, the 'beginning-of-line' function jumps to the
absolute beginning of the line, rather than where the text starts (which is
usually more useful), it's tempting to replace this function with something that
moves to the first character on the line first. But, that function is already
bound to 'M-m', 'back-to-indentation'. Of course, naturally, M-m has been
rebound to multiple cursors, and C-a rebound to
natural-beginning-of-line. This is something I prefer.
Where changes are made, the focus is on enhancing the vanilla experience, rather that remaking it.
This section just serves to outline some really cool things I thought is worth trying
Surprisingly emacs ships with the mark being visible, which is actually the
objectively worse way to use emacs. It's more familiar to most selection but it
gets interupted by other commands and vice versa. The non-transient mark is
permanent and sticks around even after running a bunch of (non-mark affecting)
commands. I use visible-mark-mode to help visually remind me where I left the mark.
It's nice to show some appreciation for the hacks and help you come across. As well as pointing people towards the various places where they might get a little more information than from here.
This is a hack responsible for the coloured checkbox lines in
org-mode,
which is largely based on these posts
A simple way of checking if an org heading under the point is folded org-folded-p by dan a
'cemacs-desktop-owner-advice' is a hack to disable checking for locks when
reading desktop files. This allows for a bit more flexability in using "desktop"
related functions without using the overly aggressive 'desktop-mode'
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