Emacs Config Gems - Part 1

I’ve been working on my Emacs config for three weeks now, coming this weekend. It’s one of the deepest and most fun rabbit holes I’ve been exploring. As I stumble upon new ways to do things, I dig deeper, learn more, and keep tweaking my config, which makes this rabbit lair even bigger. Eventually I realized that if I wait until I’m done to upload the config file, it will never happen: by the time I’m done, I will accumulate enough fixes and additional tricks and tweaks to warrant a whole new file. The conclusion is what I should have done from the beginning: apply changes in chunks and explain what I’m doing and why as these happen. I’m starting with changes to my .emacs1 file on my mac2, before we’re even touching the “good stuff” in my main emacs-settings.org file. Why? Because Emacs was built with Linux in mind, and we need to make some important adjustments to how Emacs works on a Mac before we use it. As you will see, I’m using this conceptually too: while some of the…