Introduction

Emacs allows crazy customizations. I have been using emacs for 8 months now, and I love it. Emacs usually is heavily customized by the user. I hope this serves the newbies a base on which they can build without wasting too much time.

What you can find in this config:

• regarding automatically installing packages upon switching on emacs

  This will allow to basically not worry one second about your configuration when you have to re-install/install on a new computer.

• contains shortcuts for starting and stopping a mode

• contains shortcuts for triggering certain features in a mode when the mode is running.

Prerequisites

You need Emacs. I have tested this init-file on Emacs 25.3.2. If you are new to emacs and need help getting started look here. Instructions are only for Linux (I do not know how it works in windows).

Installing

Just download the files into your ~/.emacs.d/ folder. Delete the elpa folder and the .gitignore file. That's it! Open Emacs. All the packages needed will be installed automatically! Bye!

In case you want to try it and see how it works first, download the files in the git repository to ~/.emacs2.d/ and then type this in the terminal

emacs -q -l ~/.emacs2

Source (I haven't tested the above command).

Info

This init.el file contains shortcuts, settings of packages and loading of the packages-init.el file. The packages-init.el file contains the packages that need to be installed.

For GnuEmacs, your init file is ~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.el, or ~/.emacs.d/init.el. You can choose to use any of these names. ‘~/’ stands for your home directory. - Emacs init wiki

License

Do what you want.

Acknowledgments

All links of where the code was taken or modified from is in the init.el and package-init.el files. This template was obtained from purplebooth.