From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make a "general" Emacs configuration Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:09:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C61DA12.5080403@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281539422 14565 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2010 15:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:10:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 17:10:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjCwf-0008Dl-G6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:10:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjCwe-0007Wa-TV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59751 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjCwH-0007WV-7J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjCwE-0000WN-VY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjCwE-0000WF-MJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjCwB-0007sG-UU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:09:51 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-14-232.netcologne.de ([89.0.14.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:09:51 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-89-0-14-232.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:09:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-89-0-14-232.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Fv7QW0fnhc05Zu2uM+C0/gDHKc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74547 Archived-At: Tim Visher writes: > FWIW, my config file makes extensive use of git submodules and solves > the consistent version across deploys of the configuration. I also > use a slightly modified version of emacs-version to detect OS > settings. However, I'm still a complete n00b when it comes to elisp > and emacs in general so my configuration is probably riddled with > awful antipatterns. > > http://github.com/timvisher/.emacs/tree/master/site-lisp/ > Well I think is not too bad at all. I didn't know about label macro btw, why not flet? If I can suggest something I like to add directories in the first level automatically to the load path, because normally if I put something there I want to use it. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (defun gen-path-dirs () "Add to load path all the subdirectories of first level" (interactive) (message "adding all directories in the first level to the load-path") (dolist (dir (directory-files conf t)) (if (and (file-directory-p dir) (not (file-symlink-p dir))) (add-to-list 'load-path dir)))) (gen-path-dirs) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---