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#+TITLE:Doomed Chicken
Preface
This is another attempt at making a decent Emacs configuration for the chicken I am. Having multiple files with a poor consistence or a directed goal always bit me in the back relatively quickly. So this time, I'll try to write something documenting my process to warn my future me about my current configuration mishaps.
The first steps in the look&feel
The colors
Lately, I have been partial towards Gruvbox, for multiple reasons, the first being that I was tired of all those blue themes. It's a warm colorscheme, it has a good contrast in most of the situations and I built my whole's old laptop UI based on Gruvbox. Good thing Doom Emacs has a preset for this specific colorscheme.
(setq doom-theme 'doom-gruvbox)
The fonts
The other basic configuration I usually do first too is setting a font. PragmataPro has been my newest typographic friend as it's really good for what it's made for: displaying text in a flexible yet consistent way. I really like the small touches like the ligatures
(let ((base-size 12))
(setq doom-font (font-spec :family "PragmataPro Mono Liga" :size base-size)
doom-variable-pitch-font (font-spec :family "PragmataPro Liga" :size base-size)
doom-unicode-font (font-spec :family "PragmataPro Liga" :size base-size)
doom-big-font (font-spec :family "PragmataPro Liga" :size (* base-size 2))))
PragmataPro's ligatures have been toggled within init.el though the
pretty-code layer and it's optional specialization for this font. No more
setting is to be done for this font.
Tweaks
Gruvbox and Solaire-mode
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This is an attempt at hacking +doom-solaire-themes to add Gruvbox as a working
theme as the original theme has multiple background options. Sadly, I can't make
it work yet on Windows for some reason, solaire doesn't just do its background
swap when swapping buffers. So it'll be commented out until I see if it somehow
works.
;; (setq +doom-solaire-themes (append +doom-solaire-themes ;; '((doom-gruvbox . t))))
Functions
Blog helpers
TODO Draft list
Org mode is awesome, that's a fact. I tried to look into making org my blog framework/builder but I couldn't. I switched to Hugo and reconverted my blog files into Markdown.
Hugo has a few utilities, notably listing draft posts. I wrote a while ago a function to list drafts and feed them to helm. Doom Emacs seems to use ivy as file browser, so I have to adapt it to feed Ivy.
;; (defun chicken/list-hugo-drafts() ;; (interactive) ;; (let* ((default-directory (projectile-project-root)) ;; (selected-file (helm ;; :sources ;; (helm-build-async-source ;; "Draft blog posts" ;; :candidates-process (lambda () ;; (start-process ;; "hugo" ;; nil ;; "hugo" ;; "list" ;; "drafts"))) ;; :buffer ;; "*helm hugo drafts*"))) ;; (when selected-file ;; (find-file (concat default-directory selected-file)))))