General settings

1 Appearance

Disabling bent arrows (↩)

(setq-default visual-line-fringe-indicators nil)
(setq-default fringe-indicator-alist '(
                                       (truncation left-arrow right-arrow)
                                       (continuation nil nil) ;; left-curly-arrow
                                       (overlay-arrow . right-triangle)
                                       (up . up-arrow)
                                       (down . down-arrow)
                                       (top top-left-angle top-right-angle)
                                       (bottom bottom-left-angle bottom-right-angle top-right-angle top-left-angle)
                                       (top-bottom left-bracket right-bracket top-right-angle top-left-angle)
                                       (empty-line . empty-line)
                                       (unknown . question-mark)))

2 Backup and other file settings

Store all backup and autosave files in the /tmp directory

(setq backup-directory-alist
      `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))

Backup by copying instead of renaming. See https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Backup-Copying.html

(setq backup-by-copying t)

Automatic deletion of backups. See https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Backup-Deletion.html

(setq delete-old-versions t
      kept-new-versions 6
      kept-old-versions 2
      version-control t)

Do not create "lock" files.

(setq create-lockfiles nil)

Save files when emacs goes out of focus

(defun save-all ()
  (interactive)
  (save-some-buffers t))
(add-hook 'focus-out-hook 'save-all)

Load any changes from disk automatically

(setq global-auto-revert-mode t)

3 Miscellaneous

Answer with y/n instead of having to write the full words

(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

Default browser to use

(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
      browse-url-generic-program "google-chrome-stable")

(with-eval-after-load 'helm
  (setq helm-display-function 'helm-default-display-buffer)) ;; temp work around

4 Org config

Spacemacs requires the org-mode settings to be defined after the org-mode is activated.

(with-eval-after-load 'org
  (require 'org-config)
)

Default file to open

(find-file "~/Dropbox/org/main.org")

5 Disabled

;; (require 'epa-file)
;; (epa-file-enable)
;; (setq epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t)

;; (require 'python) ; if not done elsewhere
;; (require 'eval-in-repl-python)
;; (add-hook 'python-mode-hook
;;           '(lambda ()
;;              (local-set-key (kbd "<C-return>") 'eir-eval-in-python)))

;; consider *.org.txt files as org files
;; (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org.txt\\'" . org-mode))

;; (require 'helm-bookmark)

6 Final

Let the Spacemacs use this configuration.

(provide 'general-config)