🔗 Prot's Basic and Capable Emacs Configuration

I am learning a lot from Prot’s articles on Emacs. This last article:

What follows is a rather simple, yet fully capable, setup to get started with Emacs.

Here’s what I learned from it.

I have replaced the custom.el related code from:

(progn
  (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory))
  (when (file-exists-p custom-file)
     (load custom-file)))

with the simpler, more legible:

(setq custom-file (locate-user-emacs-file "custom.el"))
(load custom-file :no-error-if-file-is-missing)

Then, it’s the code snippet for preventing the Warnings buffer popping up. So useful!

Next, it’s the delsel built-in package that enables deleting the selected text when starting to type

I applied the configuration for dired. I still have to read through each option to see what it gets me.

And last, it’s the improved functionality for the C-g.

Looks like the type of article that has a nugget for everyone.

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