About

This is but a personal config.

Installation

Just put it in ~/.config/emacs

Emacs as a server

I tend to run Emacs in server mode. It migth be convenient to have a systemd user unit for that:

[Unit]
Description=Emacs Daemon

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/emacs --daemon
ExecStop=/usr/bin/emacsclient --eval "(progn (setq kill-emacs-hook 'nil)(kill-emacs))"
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Just put it in ~/.config/systemd/emacs.service You can then enable it with

$ systemctl --user enable emacs

Key bindings

This config doesn’t change Emacs’ classic key bindings. Instead, I like to remap my system-wide keyboard layout. Namely, I replace Caps Lock with Left Ctrl, and Left Ctrl with Hyper. This doesn’t only give me the more convenient placement of Ctrl key, but also provides me with additional keyboard modifier.

To achieve this behaviour, put this config in ~/.Xmodmap:

remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
remove mod4 = Hyper_L
keysym Control_L = Hyper_L
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Control = Control_L
add mod3 = Hyper_L