¶News
New SC Video: How to Organize Your Guix Configuration
The “Hands-On Guile Scheme for Beginners” course is now on-demand!
If you’d like to learn Scheme, functional programming, and Guile at your own pace, this might be for you!
More information can be found on the course details page:
https://systemcrafters.net/courses/hands-on-guile-scheme-beginners/
The Autumn Lisp Game Jam is next Friday, October 25!
- It’s been 4 years of System Crafters!j
¶Emacs in the Terminal is Useful!
- Why using Emacs in the terminal can be useful
- Installing Guix
- Desktop environment gets broken and you need to fix it in the tty
- ssh’ing into a remote machine or container
- WSL2 Linux environment in the terminal
- Termux on Android, probably the best Emacs experience on mobile right now
- How to minimally configure Emacs to be slightly nicer to use in the terminal
- Emacs vs tmux
- Use Emacs as the program that gets launched automatically on tty login
See also Wai Hon’s blog post https://whhone.com/posts/emacs-in-a-termainl/ – especially about clipboard integration!
Check out Lionyx’s configurations too:
https://github.com/LionyxML/emacs-solo/blob/main/init.el#L309 https://github.com/LionyxML/emacs-kick/
¶The Final Configuration
(setq inhibit-startup-message t) (menu-bar-mode -1) (fido-vertical-mode 1) ;; Alternatively, use this: ;; (icomplete-vertical-mode 1) ;; (push 'flex completion-styles) ;; -------- UNNECESSARY -------- (tab-bar-mode 1) ;; Unnecessary Emacs Lisp editing enhancements (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook #'flymake-mode) (global-eldoc-mode 1) ;; Unnecessary visual improvements (load-theme 'modus-vivendi-tinted t) (setopt mode-line-end-spaces nil) (set-display-table-slot standard-display-table 'vertical-border (make-glyph-code ?│)) ;; Make the infernal rodent work! (xterm-mouse-mode 1)