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I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.

by elarkin 14y ago

I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d ). I have taken special care to make sure that the init.el file is readable, and can be used with a fresh copy of emacs (without any packages installed) and everything works just fine. If you want to try it, just brew install emacs --cocoa and clone the repo to ~/.emacs.d A coworker and I trade snippets of elisp for our configurations over email, and whenever I update the repo on one machine, the other needs to pull it down and evaluate the file (eval-buffer) I have not found sharing customizations of emacs to be very difficult, but I also don't use any god packages like emacs starter-kit, or prelude (which I haven't heard of). I have let my configuration grow organically.

zaphar 14y ago
My emacs automatically downloads and installs all my used packages on first startup on a fresh install. Literally all I have to do on a new box is clone my dotfiles and start emacs.
- foobarqux 14y ago
  How do you achieve that?
  - spacemanaki 14y ago
    This is what I have at the top of my ~/.emacs.d/init.el: (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t) (package-initialize) (when (not package-archive-contents) (package-refresh-contents)) (defvar my-packages '(clojure-mode ...)) ; list of packages (dolist (p my-packages) (when (not (package-installed-p p)) (package-install p)))
  - zaphar 14y ago
    https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/dotfiles/src/6ce04e6c7bbb03b21fd1ff08ba0e764bb0c052d4/.emacs.d/conf.d/001-my-packages.el?at=default https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/dotfiles/src/6ce04e6c7bbb03b21f... shows the current setup. It's gotten more sophisticated over the years. I can probably clean it up some but it works so I haven't touched it :-)

by elarkin 14y ago

zaphar 14y ago

My emacs automatically downloads and installs all my used packages on first startup on a fresh install. Literally all I have to do on a new box is clone my dotfiles and start emacs.

foobarqux 14y ago
How do you achieve that?
- spacemanaki 14y ago
  This is what I have at the top of my ~/.emacs.d/init.el: (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t) (package-initialize) (when (not package-archive-contents) (package-refresh-contents)) (defvar my-packages '(clojure-mode ...)) ; list of packages (dolist (p my-packages) (when (not (package-installed-p p)) (package-install p)))
- zaphar 14y ago
  https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/dotfiles/src/6ce04e6c7bbb03b21fd1ff08ba0e764bb0c052d4/.emacs.d/conf.d/001-my-packages.el?at=default https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/dotfiles/src/6ce04e6c7bbb03b21f... shows the current setup. It's gotten more sophisticated over the years. I can probably clean it up some but it works so I haven't touched it :-)