emacs-lisp source:(provide 'cce/startup)
emacs-lisp source:(setq custom-file "~/.emacs.d/custom.el")
I almost always want Emacs's server running. There's no reason not to, especially when I am using EXWM. The ability to be able to attach to Emacs to edit files from the command line, or to rescue a broken X11 session, or to do batch operations using Emacs's text-processing libraries are all super powerful, and it makes little sense to not use this.
emacs-lisp source:(unless (boundp 'server-process) (server-start))
Desktop Save Mode is the session management system for Emacs; it holds state of open buffers and session variables across instantiation of Emacs, which is super useful in mobile setups like laptops which reboot a lot. To make startup sane, I'm choosing to eagerly restore the 10 most recently used buffers on startup, and then in Idle the system will restore the remaining buffers.
emacs-lisp source:(desktop-save-mode 1) (setq desktop-restore-eager 25) (setq desktop-load-locked-desktop t) (setq desktop-files-not-to-save "\\(^/[^/:]*:\\|(ftp)$\\|KILL\\)") (setq desktop-restore-frames nil) (setq desktop-lazy-verbose nil)
Emacs should automatically save my state, and does so every five minutes.
emacs-lisp source:(defun cce/desktop-save () "Write the desktop save file to ~/.emacs.d" (desktop-save user-emacs-directory)) (if (not (boundp 'cce/desktop-save-timer)) (setq cce/desktop-save-timer (run-with-idle-timer 300 t 'cce/desktop-save)))
The splashscreen is useful if you've never used Emacs before, but I'd rather just drop straight in to the Scratch buffer.
emacs-lisp source:(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
savehist mode simply persists the state of a bunch of user-input fields, allowing history of minibuffer input, my kill ring, etc. This is a simple quality of life fix.
emacs-lisp source:(require 'savehist) (setq savehist-file (concat user-emacs-directory "savehist")) (setq savehist-save-minibuffer-history 1) (setq savehist-additional-variables '(kill-ring search-ring regexp-search-ring)) (savehist-mode 1)
recentf gives me a "Recent Files" menu and also some pretty neat Projectile integration. consult-recentf in my Consult configuration benefits from this thing well.
emacs-lisp source:(recentf-mode 1)
Use ibuffer instead of list-buffers; someday I'd like to move this to use sbuffer.el
emacs-lisp source:(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-b") 'ibuffer) (with-eval-after-load "ibuffer" (add-to-list 'ibuffer-hook #'ibuffer-set-filter-groups-by-mode))