;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Emacs early initialization ;; Fix upgrading in the built-in org-mode (if (featurep 'org) (unload-feature 'org)) ;; Initialise installed packages at this early stage, by using the ;; available cache. I had tried a setup with this set to nil in the ;; early-init.el, but (i) it ended up being slower and (ii) various ;; package commands, like `describe-package', did not have an index of ;; packages to work with, requiring a `package-refresh-contents'. ;; [[file:../plrjorg/config/emacs/20240520T091920--base__abbrev_fido_icomplete_ido_earlyinit_time.org::#h:7FC8277B-4146-468A-BA77-0E6DCA672D88][Early initialization:2]] (setq package-enable-at-startup t ) ;; Early initialization:2 ends here ;; Freeing up Alt (A- ) key bindings ;; :PROPERTIES: ;; :CUSTOM_ID: h:5BBB83C9-0775-4AC5-8439-19608AB59D41 ;; :END: ;; Since I live in Org-mode, I want commands to be easily accessible. The below releases the Alt keybindings from UTF-8 symbols, which are accessible in other ways. In the =org-mode= configuration I will take advantage of this. ;; [[file:../plrjorg/config/emacs/20240520T091920--base__abbrev_fido_icomplete_ido_earlyinit_time.org::#h:5BBB83C9-0775-4AC5-8439-19608AB59D41][Freeing up Alt (A- ) key bindings:1]] ;; This is needed to unbind Alt key mappings to UTF ;; symbols as an abbreviation for C-x 8 map in ;; iso-transl.el ;; To be more clear, makes it so that one can remap ;; the entire Alt keybinding space to whatever. ;; iso-transl.el loads exceedingly early in recent ;; Emacs versions. It takes ownership of the Alt ;; map and the usual keymap tools will not change ;; iso-transl.el assignments. ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2021-10/msg02500.html ;; Thanks to Eli Zaratskii, Gregory Heytings, and ;; especially Mark Bestley for the solution! (dolist (transl-char iso-transl-char-map) (let ((vec (vconcat (car transl-char)))) (aset vec 0 (logior (aref vec 0) ?\A-\^@)) (define-key key-translation-map vec nil)) ) ;; Freeing up Alt (A- ) key bindings:1 ends here (setq frame-resize-pixelwise t frame-inhibit-implied-resize 'force frame-title-format '("%b") ring-bell-function 'ignore use-dialog-box nil use-file-dialog nil use-short-answers t ;; inhibit-splash-screen nil ;; inhibit-startup-screen nil inhibit-x-resources t ;; inhibit-startup-echo-area-message user-login-name ; read the docstring ;; inhibit-startup-buffer-menu nil ) (provide 'early-init) ;;; early-init.el ends here