(provide 'cce/startup)(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(recentf-mode 1)Use ibuffer instead of list-buffers; someday I'd like to move this to
use sbuffer.el
(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))