Applications

(use-package transient
  :straight (:build t)
  :defer t)

Bitwarden

This package is still a very much work in progress one I’m developing in order to interact with Bitwarden in Emacs with the help of the Bitwarden CLIopen in new window. Use at your own risks.

(use-package bitwarden
  :defer t
  :straight (bitwarden :build t
                       :type git
                       :host nil
                       :repo "https://labs.phundrak.com/phundrak/bitwarden.el"))

Calendar

I am using the built-in calendar of Emacs, but as I use Evil and the bépo layout, many keybindings available by default or through evil-collection don’t fit my needs perfectly.

(use-package calendar
  :straight (:type built-in)
  :defer t
  :general
  (:keymaps 'calendar-mode-map
   "»"     #'calendar-scroll-left
   "«"     #'calendar-scroll-right
   "M-»"   #'calendar-scroll-left-three-months
   "M-«"   #'calendar-scroll-right-three-months
   "M-r"   #'calendar-scroll-left
   "M-c"   #'calendar-scroll-right
   "M-S-r" #'calendar-scroll-left-three-months
   "M-S-c" #'calendar-scroll-right-three-months
   "q"     #'calendar-exit)
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps 'calendar-mode-map
    "="   #'calendar-count-days-region
    "^"   '(:ignore t :wk "beginning")
    "^ w" #'calendar-beginning-of-week
    "^ m" #'calendar-beginning-of-month
    "^ y" #'calendar-beginning-of-year
    "$"   '(:ignore t :wk "end")
    "$w"  #'calendar-end-of-week
    "$m"  #'calendar-end-of-month
    "$y"  #'calendar-end-of-year
    "a"   '(:ignore t :wk "appointment")
    "aa"  #'appt-add
    "ad"  #'appt-delete
    "A"   #'org-calendar-goto-agenda
    "b"   '(:ignore t :wk "go back")
    "bd"  '(calendar-backward-day :wk "a day")
    "bw"  '(calendar-backward-week :wk "a week")
    "bm"  '(calendar-backward-month :wk "a month")
    "by"  '(calendar-backward-year :wk "a year")
    "d"   '(:ignore t :wk "diary")
    "da"  '(diary-show-all-entries :wk "all entries")
    "dd"  '(diary-view-entries :wk "entries")
    "dm"  #'diary-mark-entries
    "do"  #'diary-view-other-diary-entries
    "di"  '(:ignore t :wk "insert")
    "die" '(diary-insert-entry :wk "entry")
    "die" '(diary-insert-block-entry :wk "block entry")
    "diw" '(diary-insert-weekly-entry :wk "weekly")
    "dim" '(diary-insert-monthly-entry :wk "monthly")
    "diy" '(diary-insert-yearly-entry :wk "yearly")
    "F"   '(:ignore t :wk "files")
    "Fa"  #'org-calendar-goto-agenda
    "f"   '(:ignore t :wk "go forward")
    "fd"  '(calendar-forward-day :wk "a day")
    "fw"  '(calendar-forward-week :wk "a week")
    "fm"  '(calendar-forward-month :wk "a month")
    "fy"  '(calendar-forward-year :wk "a year")
    "g"   '(:ignore t :wk "goto")
    "gd"  #'calendar-goto-date
    "gm"  #'calendar-other-month
    "gt"  #'calendar-goto-today
    "h"   '(:ignore t :wk "holidays")
    "hl"  #'calendar-list-holidays
    "hm"  #'calendar-mark-holidays
    "H"   '(:ignore t :wk "HTML export")
    "Hm"  #'cal-html-cursor-month
    "Hy"  #'cal-html-cursor-year
    "M"   #'calendar-other-month))

Docker

Docker is an awesome tool for reproducible development environments. Due to this, I absolutely need a mode for editing Dockerfiles.

(use-package dockerfile-mode
  :defer t
  :straight (:build t)
  :hook (dockerfile-mode . lsp-deferred)
  :init
  (put 'docker-image-name 'safe-local-variable #'stringp)
  :mode "Dockerfile\\'"
  :general
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
   :keymaps 'general-mode-map
   :packages 'lsp-mode
   "l"  '(:keymap lsp-command-map :which-key "lsp")))

The docker package also provides interactivity with Docker and docker-compose from Emacs.

(use-package docker
  :defer t
  :straight (:build t))

Elfeed

Elfeed is a nice Atom and RSS reader for Emacs. The only thing I want to change for now is the default search filter: I want to see not only unread news but read news as well, a bit like my emails; and where the database is to be stored.

(use-package elfeed
  :defer t
  :straight (:build t)
  :config
  <<elfeed-open-youtube-with-mpv>>
  :custom
  ((elfeed-search-filter "@6-months-ago")
   (elfeed-db-directory  (expand-file-name ".elfeed-db"
                                           user-emacs-directory))))

I don’t want YouTube videos to be open with my web browser when I invoke elfeed-show-visit, so I’ll advise this function to make it possible to modify the behaviour of said function. Oh, and I already made a neat package for playing YouTube videos and friends through youtube-dlopen in new window or its superior fork yt-dlpopen in new window in mpv.

(defun my/elfeed-filter-youtube-videos (orig-fun &rest args)
  "Open with mpv the video leading to PATH"
  (let ((link (elfeed-entry-link elfeed-show-entry)))
    (when link
      (if (string-match-p ".*youtube\.com.*watch.*" link)
          ;; This is a YouTube video, open it with mpv
          (progn
            (require 'ytplay)
            (ytplay link))
        (apply orig-fun args)))))

(advice-add 'elfeed-show-visit :around #'my/elfeed-filter-youtube-videos)

A future improvement to be made is to let the user chose the resolution of the video before it is launched. I may not always have the best internet connection, and viewing 4K videos on a 1080p display is not something very useful.

Elfeed-goodies is a package which enhances the Elfeed experience. Aside from running its setup command as soon as possible, I also set in this code block all my keybinds for Elfeed here.

(use-package elfeed-goodies
  :defer t
  :after elfeed
  :commands elfeed-goodies/setup
  :straight (:build t)
  :init
  (elfeed-goodies/setup)
  :custom
  (elfeed-goodies/feed-source-column-width 28)
  (elfeed-goodies/tag-column-width 28)
  :general
  (phundrak/undefine
    :keymaps '(elfeed-show-mode-map elfeed-search-mode-map)
    :packages 'elfeed
    "DEL" nil
    "s"   nil)
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'elfeed-show-mode-map
    :packages 'elfeed
    <<general-keybindings-gen(table=elfeed-keybinds-show-mode)>>)
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'elfeed-search-mode-map
    :packages 'elfeed
    <<general-keybindings-gen(table=elfeed-keybinds-search-mode)>>)
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps 'elfeed-search-mode-map
    :packages 'elfeed
    <<general-keybindings-gen(table=elfeed-keybinds-search-mode-prefixed)>>))

Last but not least, my Elfeed configuration is stored in an org file thanks to elfeed-org.

(use-package elfeed-org
  :defer nil
  :after elfeed
  :straight (:build t)
  :init
  (elfeed-org)
  :config
  (setq rmh-elfeed-org-files '("~/org/elfeed.org")))

Keybinds

First, here are the keybinds for Elfeed’s elfeed-show-mode. They aren’t prefixed by SPC like most of my keybinds, a direct keypress will directly launch the function.

KeyFunctionComment
+elfeed-show-tag
-elfeed-show-untag
«elfeed-show-prev
»elfeed-show-next
belfeed-show-visit
Celfeed-kill-link-url-at-point
delfeed-show-save-enclosure
lelfeed-show-next-link
oelfeed-goodies/show-ace-link
qelfeed-kill-buffer
Selfeed-show-new-live-search
uelfeed-show-tag–unread
yelfeed-show-yank

Same thing, different mode, here are my keybinds for elfeed-search-mode.

KeyFunctionComment
«elfeed-search-first-entry
»elfeed-search-last-entry
belfeed-search-browse-url
ffilter
fcelfeed-search-clear-filter
flelfeed-search-live-filter
fselfeed-search-set-filter
uupdate
uselfeed-search-fetch
uSelfeed-search-update
uuelfeed-update
uUelfeed-search-update–force
yelfeed-search-yank

I have some additional keybinds for elfeed-search-mode, but these one are prefixed with , (and M-m).

KeyFunctionComment
celfeed-db-compact
ttag
ttelfeed-search-tag-all-unread
tuelfeed-search-untag-all-unread
tTelfeed-search-tag-all
tUelfeed-search-untag-all

Email

Basic configuration

As seen below, I use org-msg to compose my emails, which includes by default my signature. Therefore, there is no need for Emacs itself to know about it since I don’t want it to include it a second time after org-msg already did.

(setq message-signature nil
      mail-signature    nil)

Gnus

(use-package gnus
  :straight (:type built-in)
  :defer t
  :config
  (require 'gnus-topic)
  (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
  (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "news.gwene.org")))

  (setq gnus-asynchronous t ;; async
        gnus-use-article-prefetch 15
        ;; article
        gnus-visible-headers (mapcar (lambda (str) (concat "^" str ":"))
                                     '("From" "To" "Cc" "Subject" "Newsgroup"
                                       "Date" "Followup-To" "Reply-To"
                                       "Organization" "X-Newsreader" "X-Mailer"))
        gnus-sorted-header-list gnus-visible-headers
        gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number
                                     gnus-thread-sort-by-subject
                                     (not gnus-thread-sort-by-date))
        ;; group
        gnus-level-subscribed 6
        gnus-level-unsubscribed 7
        gnus-level-zombie 8
        gnus-group-sort-function '((gnus-group-sort-by-unread)
                                   (gnus-group-sort-by-alphabet)
                                   (gnus-group-sort-by-rank))
        gnus-group-line-format "%M%p%P%5y:%B%(%g%)\n"
        gnus-group-mode-line-format "%%b"
        gnus-topic-display-empty-topics nil
        ;; summary
        gnus-auto-select-first nil
        gnus-summary-ignore-duplicates t
        gnus-suppress-duplicates t
        gnus-summary-to-prefix "To:"
        gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R %-18,18&user-date; %4L:%-25,25f %B%s\n"
        gnus-summary-mode-line-format "[%U] %p"
        gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root ""
        gnus-sum-thread-tree-indent " "
        gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent ""
        gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "+->"
        gnus-sum-thread-tree-root ""
        gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "\\->"
        gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "|")

  (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook #'gnus-dired-mode)
  (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook #'gnus-topic-mode)
  (add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook #'gnus-group-set-timestamp)

  (dolist (mode '(gnus-group-mode-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-browse-mode-hook))
    (add-hook mode #'hl-line-mode))

  :general
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'gnus-summary-mode-map
    :packages 'gnus
    "«" #'gnus-summary-prev-article
    "»" #'gnus-summary-next-article)
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps 'gnus-summary-mode-map
    :packages 'gnus
    "d"  #'gnus-summary-delete-article
    "f"  #'gnus-summary-mail-forward
    "r"  '(:ignore t :wk "reply")
    "rr" #'gnus-summary-reply-with-original
    "rl" #'gnus-summary-reply-to-list-with-original
    "rw" #'gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original
    "rW" #'gnus-summary-very-wide-reply-with-original)
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'gnus-group-mode-map
    :packages 'gnus
    "«" #'gnus-group-prev-group
    "»" #'gnus-group-next-group)
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps '(gnus-group-mode-map)
    :packages 'gnus
    "SPC" #'gnus-topic-read-group
    "c"  '(gnus-topic-catchup-articles :which-key "catchup")
    "f"  '(gnus-fetch-group :which-key "fetch")
    "j"  '(:ignore t :which-key "jump")
    "jg" #'gnus-group-jump-to-group
    "jt" #'gnus-topic-jump-to-topic
    "L"  #'gnus-group-list-all-groups
    "n"  #'gnus-group-news
    "t"  '(gnus-group-topic-map :which-key "topics")
    "u"  #'gnus-group-unsubscribe))

Mu4e

Mu4e is a very eye-pleasing email client for Emacs, built around mu and which works well with mbsync (found in Arch’s isync package). For me, the main advantage of mu4e is it has a modern interface for emailing, and quite straightforward. I tried a couple of other email clients for Emacs, and I even was for some time a Gnus user, but in the end, mu4e really works best for me. Below you’ll find my configuration for the mu4e package itself.

(use-package mu4e
  :after all-the-icons
  :straight (:build t)
  :commands mu4e mu4e-compose-new
  :init
  (defun mu4e--main-action-str (name func)
    "This seems to be needed until evil-collection supports the latest
  version of mu4e."
    "mu4e-main-action")

  (require 'mu4e)
  (remove-hook 'mu4e-main-mode-hook 'evil-collection-mu4e-update-main-view)

  <<mu4e-ical-setup>>
  <<mu4e-ical-init-config>>

  (csetq mu4e-completing-read-function 'completing-read
         mu4e-use-fancy-chars          t
         message-kill-buffer-on-exit   t
         mu4e-org-support              nil)
  (let ((dir (concat (getenv "HOME") "/Downloads/mu4e")))
    (when (file-directory-p dir)
      (csetq mu4e-attachment-dir dir)))
  (defmacro mu4e-view-mode--prepare ()
    `(lambda () (visual-line-mode 1)))
  :gfhook ('mu4e-view-mode-hook (mu4e-view-mode--prepare))
  :general
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'mu4e-main-mode-map
    :packages 'mu4e
    "U" #'mu4e-update-index)
  :config
  (require 'mu4e-view)
  (with-eval-after-load 'mm-decode
    (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
    (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text-richtext"))

  (add-hook 'mu4e-view-mode-hook (lambda () (setq truncate-lines nil)))
  (add-hook 'mu4e-headers-mode-hook (lambda () (setq truncate-lines t)))

  <<mu4e-ical-config>>
  <<mu4e-keybindings-undef>>
  <<mu4e-keybindings-view>>
  <<mu4e-keybindings-view-no-prefix>>
  <<mu4e-keybindings-header>>
  <<mu4e-keybindings-header-no-leader>>
  <<mu4e-keybindings-message>>

  <<mu4e-mail-service>>
  <<mu4e-mail-on-machine>>
  <<mu4e-no-signature>>
  <<mu4e-bookmarks>>
  <<mu4e-maildirs>>

  (when (fboundp 'imagemagick-register-types)
    (imagemagick-register-types))

  (require 'gnus-dired)
  (setq gnus-dired-mail-mode 'mu4e-user-agent)

  (add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook (lambda () (use-hard-newlines t 'guess)))
  (add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook 'mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime)

  (setq mu4e-change-filenames-when-moving t
        mu4e-update-interval              60
        mu4e-compose-format-flowed        t
        mu4e-view-show-addresses          t
        mu4e-sent-messages-behaviour      'sent
        mu4e-hide-index-messages          t
        mu4e-view-show-images             t                     ; try to show images
        mu4e-view-image-max-width         600
        message-send-mail-function        #'smtpmail-send-it    ; how to send an email
        smtpmail-stream-type              'starttls
        message-kill-buffer-on-exit       t                     ; close after sending
        mu4e-context-policy               'pick-first           ; start with first (default) context
        mu4e-compose-context-policy       'ask-if-none          ; compose with current context, or ask
        mu4e-completing-read-function     #'ivy-completing-read ; use ivy
        mu4e-confirm-quit                 t                     ; no need to ask
        mu4e-header-fields                '((:account    . 12)
                                            (:human-date . 12)
                                            (:flags      . 4)
                                            (:from       . 25)
                                            (:subject)))

  ;; set mail user agent
  (setq mail-user-agent 'mu4e-user-agent)

  <<mu4e-fancy-marks>>
  <<mu4e-vertical-split>>
  <<mu4e-headers-mode>>

  (defun mu4e-action-open-as-pdf (msg)
    "Export and open MSG as pdf."
    (let* ((date    (mu4e-message-field msg :date))
           (infile  (mu4e~write-body-to-html msg))
           (outfile (format-time-string "/tmp/%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S.pdf" date)))
      (with-temp-buffer
        (shell-command
         (format "wkhtmltopdf %s %s" infile outfile) t))
      (find-file outfile))))

Quick sidenote: on Arch Linux, you’ll need to install either mu or mu-git from the AUR in order to use mu4e. I also have a .desktop file to make it possible to open mu4e directly from my program picker. It uses the shell script emacsmail I’ve written here.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mu4e
GenericName=Mu4e
Comment=Maildir Utils for Emacs
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto;
Exec=/home/phundrak/.local/bin/emacsmail %U
Icon=emacs
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Network;Email;TextEditor
StartupWMClass=Gnus
Keywords=Text;Editor;

Interact with iCalendar events

Something that has always bugged me was how to properly with iCalendar events shared with me on my personal mailbox. The answer is actually dead simpleopen in new window.

(require 'mu4e-icalendar)
(mu4e-icalendar-setup)

I’ll just configure a couple of things regarding these events, namely converting them to org-mode and add them to my ~/org/notes.org file, and delete the email once I answered to the event.

(setq mu4e-icalendar-trash-after-reply t)
(setq gnus-icalendar-org-capture-file "~/org/notes.org"
      gnus-icalendar-org-capture-headline '("Calendar"))
(gnus-icalendar-org-setup)

Basic configuration

First, let’s inform Emacs how it can send emails, using which service and how. In my case, I use my own mail server.

(setq smtpmail-smtp-server       "mail.phundrak.com"
      smtpmail-smtp-service      587
      smtpmail-stream-type       'starttls
      message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)

We also need to inform it on where my emails are stored on my machine, and how to retrieve them.

(setq mu4e-get-mail-command "mbsync -a"
      mu4e-root-maildir     "~/Mail"
      mu4e-trash-folder     "/Trash"
      mu4e-refile-folder    "/Archive"
      mu4e-sent-folder      "/Sent"
      mu4e-drafts-folder    "/Drafts")

In the same vein of this bit of configuration, I do not want mu4e to insert my mail signature, org-msg already does that.

(setq mu4e-compose-signature nil)

Bookmarks

In mu4e, the main focus isn’t really mail directories such as your inbox, your sent messages and such, but instead you manipulate bookmarks which will show you emails depending on tags. This mean you can create some pretty customized bookmarks that go way beyound your simple inbox, outbox and all. Actually, four of my bookmarks have a couple of filtering:

And all of them will have the requirement not to display any trashed email. Actually, all of my bookmarks will have this requirement, except for the bookmark dedicated to them as well as my sent emails. I’ll add these latter requirements later.

Here are the requirements for my university bookmark. The regex matches any email address which contains either up8.edu or univ-paris8, which can be found in email addresses from the University Paris 8 (my university).

(let ((regex "/.*up8\\.edu|.*univ-paris8.*/"))
  (concat
   <<mu4e-bookmarks-from-copy-to-gen>>
   " OR maildir:/Univ/Inbox OR maildir:/Univ/Junk"))

Next I need an inbox dedicated to the association I’m part of.

(let ((regex "/.*supran\\.fr/"))
  <<mu4e-bookmarks-from-copy-to-gen>>)

As for the Emacs-doctor list, I need to match both the current, modern mailing list address but also its old address. The same applies for the emacs-devel mailing list as well as GitHub emails related to my package eshell-info-banner.el. Here are the addresses to match:

  • /ateliers.*emacs.*/
  • /emacs-.*@gnu.org/
  • /.*eshell-info-banner.*/
  • /.*emacsfr.*/
"<<mu4e-bookmarks-mailing-lists(lists=mu4e-emacs-mailing-lists)>>"

Another bookmark I wish to have is one dedicated to emails related to more general development topics, including issues and PRs from GitHub.

;; "<<mu4e-bookmarks-mailing-lists(lists=mu4e-github-mailing-lists)>> AND NOT ()"
(string-join '("<<mu4e-bookmarks-mailing-lists(lists=mu4e-github-mailing-lists)>>"
               "AND NOT ("
               <<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-emacs-list>>
               ")")
             " ")

When it comes to my internship, all emails will contain an address containing aubay.com (that’s where my internship takes place).

  • /.*aubay.com/
(let ((regex "/.*aubay\\.com/"))
  <<mu4e-bookmarks-from-copy-to-gen>>)

As I said earlier, something that will often come back in my bookmarks is the emails must not be trashed to appear. I want also to display junk emails, so I end up with the following rule:

(mapconcat #'identity
           `("NOT flag:trashed"
             ,(format "(%s)" (mapconcat (lambda (maildir) (concat "maildir:" maildir))
                                        '("/Inbox" "/Junk")
                                        " OR ")))
            " AND ")

And for the last string-generating code, let’s describe my main inbox:

(mapconcat #'identity
           (cons "<<mu4e-bookmarks-default-filter()>>"
                 `(,(format "(%s)"
                            <<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-aubay>>)
                   ,(format "(%s)" "<<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-asso()>>")
                   ,(format "(%s)"
                            <<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-emacs-list>>)
                   ,(format "(%s)"
                            <<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-github-list>>)
                   ,(format "(%s)"
                            <<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-uni>>)))
           " AND NOT ")

We can finally define our bookmarks! The code reads as follows:

(setq mu4e-bookmarks
      `((:name "Inbox"
         :key ?i
         :query ,(format "%s"
                         <<mu4e-bookmarks-inbox-filters>>))
        (:name "Internship"
         :key ?a
         :query ,(format "(%s) AND (%s)"
                     "<<mu4e-bookmarks-default-filter()>>"
                     <<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-aubay>>))
        (:name "University"
         :key ?u
         :query ,(format "%s AND %s"
                         "<<mu4e-bookmarks-default-filter()>>"
                         "<<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-uni()>>"))
        (:name "Dev"
         :key ?d
         :query ,(format "%s AND (%s)"
                         "<<mu4e-bookmarks-default-filter()>>"
                         "<<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-github-list()>>"))
        (:name "Emacs"
         :key ?e
         :query ,(format "%s AND %s"
                         "<<mu4e-bookmarks-default-filter()>>"
                         <<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-emacs-list>>))
        (:name "Supran"
         :key ?s
         :query ,(format "%s AND %s"
                         "<<mu4e-bookmarks-default-filter()>>"
                         "<<mu4e-bookmarks-filter-asso()>>"))
        (:name "Sent"       :key ?S :query "maildir:/Sent OR maildir:/Univ/Sent")
        (:name "All Unread" :key ?U :query "flag:unread AND NOT flag:trashed")
        (:name "Today"      :key ?t :query "date:today..now AND NOT flag:trashed")
        (:name "This Week"  :key ?w :query "date:7d..now    AND NOT flag:trashed")
        (:name "This Month" :key ?m :query "date:1m..now    AND NOT flag:trashed")
        (:name "This Year"  :key ?y :query "date:1y..now    AND NOT flag:trashed")))

Maildirs

Sometimes, bookmarks are a bit too restrictive when I want to search for stuff. Simply jumping to a mail directory, or maildir, is more than enough. In mu4e, with my current setup, I can jump to any maildir with the shortcut Jo in normal-mode, and I just need to choose in a list the maildir I want to jump to. But it can be faster.

With this piece of code, I can simply jump to my inbox maildir with Ji, to my sent messages with Js, and so on.

(setq mu4e-maildir-shortcuts
      '((:maildir "/Inbox" :key ?i)
        (:maildir "/Sent" :key ?s)
        (:maildir "/Junk" :key ?j)
        (:maildir "/Trash" :key ?t)))

Dealing with spammers

I’m sure you have received at least one email recently from a sketchy email address asking you something that might be completely unrelated to what you do, or at least somewhat related. Fortunately, we have a heroopen in new window! Now, let me write a function that will insert their pre-written text at point to avoid me going back to their Twitter thread each time I want to shut spammers up.

(defun reply-to-bill ()
  (interactive)
  (insert "Please forward this email to [email protected],
and delete my email, as I’ll be changing jobs soon, and this
email address will no longer be active.

Bill Whiskoney is a senior partner at Nordic Procurement
Services, and he handles our budget and will help you further or
introduce you to someone who can."))

If you want the full story, make sure to read the whole thread, I guarantee it, it’s worth your time! And in case the Twitter thread disappear in the future, here is a backupopen in new window.

Getting Fancy

I’m not a huge fan of mu4e’s default icons marking my emails, so I’ll redefine them as follows. Be aware the name of these icons are from faicon in the package all-the-icons.

MarkFlagIcon
draftDpencil
flaggedFflag
newNrss
passedPcheck
repliedRreply
seenSeye
unreadueye-slash
trashedTtrash
attachapaperclip
encryptedxlock
signedscertificate

Let’s enable them and set them:

(setq mu4e-use-fancy-chars t
      <<mu4e-fancy-marks-gen()>>)
(defun my/set-mu4e-headers-width ()
  (let ((width    (window-body-width))
        (threshold (+ 120 80)))
    (setq mu4e-split-view (if (> width threshold)
                              'vertical
                            'horizontal))))

(setq mu4e-headers-visible-columns 120
      mu4e-headers-visible-lines   15)
(add-hook 'mu4e-headers-mode-hook #'my/set-mu4e-headers-width)

Headers mode

(add-hook 'mu4e-headers-mode-hook (lambda () (visual-line-mode -1)))
(add-hook 'mu4e-headers-mode-hook (lambda () (toggle-truncate-lines -1)))

Keybindings

By default, Evil has some pretty annoying keybindings for users of the bépo layout: hjkl becomes ctsr for us. Let’s undefine some of these:

(phundrak/undefine
  :keymaps 'mu4e-view-mode-map
  :packages 'mu4e
  "S"   nil
  "r"   nil
  "c"   nil
  "gu"  nil)

(phundrak/undefine
  :keymaps '(mu4e-view-mode-map mu4e-headers-mode-map)
  :packages 'mu4e
  "s"   nil)

Now, let’s define some keybindings for mu4e’s view mode, that is when we are viewing an email. All these keybindings will reside between the major-mode specific leader key , and most of these keybindings can be described with a simple function:

KeybindingFunctionDescription
&mu4e-view-pipe
.mu4e-headers-split-adjust-width/bodymu4e-headers width
anilattachments
a&mu4e-view-pipe-attachment
aamu4e-view-attachment-action
aomu4e-view-open-attachment
aOmu4e-view-open-attachment-with
cnilcompose
ccmu4e-compose-new
cemu4e-compose-edit
cfmu4e-compose-forward
crmu4e-compose-reply
cRmu4e-compose-resend
lmu4e-show-log
mnilmark
mdmu4e-view-mark-for-trash
mDmu4e-view-mark-for-delete
mmmu4e-view-mark-for-move
mrmu4e-view-mark-for-refile
mRmu4e-view-mark-for-read
mumu4e-view-mark-for-unread
mUmu4e-view-mark-for-unmark
tmu4e-view-mark-threadmark thread
Tniltoggle
Tcmu4e-view-toggle-hide-cited
Thmu4e-view-toggle-html
nmu4e-view-headers-next
Nmu4e-view-headers-next-unread
pmu4e-view-headers-prev
Pmu4e-view-headers-prev-unread
unilurl
ufmu4e-view-go-to-url
uFmu4e-view-fetch-url
(phundrak/major-leader-key
  :keymaps 'mu4e-view-mode-map
  :packages 'mu4e
  <<general-keybindings-gen(table=mu4e-keybindings-view-tbl)>>)

Two other keybinds are added without a prefix, just for the sake of convenience.

(phundrak/evil
  :keymaps 'mu4e-view-mode-map
  :packages 'mu4e
  "«" #'mu4e-view-headers-prev
  "»" #'mu4e-view-headers-next)

I’ll also declare two keybinds for mu4e’s headers mode.

(phundrak/major-leader-key
  :keymaps 'mu4e-headers-mode-map
  :packages 'mu4e
  "t" '(mu4e-view-mark-thread :which-key "mark thread")
  "s" 'swiper)

I will also redefine without a leader key ctsr in order to be able to move freely (remember, bépo layout for me).

KeyFunctionComment
cevil-backward-char
tevil-next-visual-line
sevil-previous-visual-line
revil-forward-char
(phundrak/evil
  :keymaps 'mu4e-headers-mode-map
  :packages 'mu4e
  <<general-keybindings-gen(table=mu4e-keybindings-header-no-leader-table)>>)

Finally, let’s declare a couple of keybindings for when we are composing a message. This time, all my keybindings are prefixed with the major-mode leader and call a simple function.

KeyFunctionDescription
,message-send-and-exit
cmessage-send-and-exit
amessage-kill-buffer
kmessage-kill-buffer
smessage-dont-send
fmml-attach-file
(phundrak/major-leader-key
  :keymaps 'message-mode-map
  :packages 'mu4e
  <<general-keybindings-gen(table=mu4e-keybindings-message-tbl)>>)

Composing messages

Org mime is cool and all, you can write some org-mode and then export it to either a plain-text or an HTML email. BUT, have you considered skipping the export part and write your emails directly in org-mode?

(use-package org-msg
  :after (mu4e)
  :straight (:build t)
  :hook ((mu4e-compose-pre . org-msg-mode))
  :custom-face
  (mu4e-replied-face ((t (:weight normal :foreground "#b48ead"))))
  :config
  (defun my/org-msg-signature-convert (orig-fun &rest args)
    "Tweak my signature when replying as plain/text only."
    (let ((res (apply orig-fun args)))
      (when (equal (cadr args) '(text))
        (setf (alist-get 'signature res)
              (replace-regexp-in-string "\n+" "\n" org-msg-signature)))
      res))
  (advice-add 'org-msg-composition-parameters
              :around 'my/org-msg-signature-convert)
  (add-hook 'mu4e-headers-mode (lambda () (toggle-truncate-lines -1)))
  (setq org-msg-startup              "inlineimages"
        org-msg-default-alternatives '((new           . (text))
                                       (reply-to-html . (text))
                                       (reply-to-text . (text)))
        org-msg-greeting-name-limit  3
        org-msg-signature            (format "\n--\n#+begin_signature\n%s\n#+end_signature"
                                             (with-temp-buffer
                                               (insert-file-contents mail-signature-file)
                                               (while (re-search-forward "\n" nil t)
                                                 (replace-match "\n\n"))
                                               (buffer-string))))
  :general
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps 'org-msg-edit-mode-map
    :packages 'org-msg
    <<general-keybindings-gen(table=org-msg-edit-mode-keybinds)>>))

The keybinds are relatively simple org-msg-edit-mode:

KeyFunctionDescription
,message-send-and-exit
cmessage-send-and-exit
amessage-kill-buffer
kmessage-kill-buffer
smessage-dont-send
forg-msg-attach

Email alerts

There is also a package for mu4e which generates desktop notifications when new emails are received. By default, I want to be notified by all messages in my inbox and junk folder. Also, I’ll use Emacs’ default notification system, and I’ll activate the modeline notification.

(use-package mu4e-alert
  :straight (:build t)
  :after mu4e
  :defer t
  :init
  (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'mu4e-alert-enable-notifications)
  (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'mu4e-alert-enable-mode-line-display)
  (mu4e-alert-set-default-style 'notifications)
  :config
  (setq mu4e-alert-interesting-mail-query "flag:unread"))

EMMS and Media

EMMS, also known as the Emacs MultiMedia System, allows the user to interact through Emacs with multimedia elements such as music and videos. My main use for it will be for music with MPD (see its configuration here).

(use-package emms
  :defer t
  :after all-the-icons
  :straight (:build t)
  :init
  (require 'emms-setup)
  (require 'emms-mark)
  (emms-all)
  (add-to-list 'emms-info-functions 'emms-info-mpd)
  (add-to-list 'emms-player-list    'emms-player-mpd)
  (emms-player-mpd-sync-from-mpd)
  (emms-player-mpd-connect)

  <<emms-fd-name>>
  <<emms-fd-function>>
  <<emms-search-set-variable>>

  <<emms-media-hydra>>
  (defun my/mpc-toggle ()
    (interactive)
    (shell-command-and-echo "mpc toggle"))
  (defun emms-player-toggle-pause ()
    (interactive)
    (shell-command-and-echo "mpc toggle"))
  :custom
  ((emms-source-file-default-directory (expand-file-name "~/Music"))
   (emms-player-mpd-server-name "localhost")
   (emms-player-mpd-server-port "6600")
   (emms-player-mpd-music-directory (expand-file-name "~/Music"))
   (emms-browser-thumbnail-small-size 64)
   (emms-browser-thumbnail-medium-size 128)
   (emms-browser-covers #'emms-browser-cache-thumbnail-async)
   (emms-playlist-default-major-mode 'emms-mark-mode))
  :general
  (phundrak/undefine
    :keymaps 'emms-browser-mode-map
    :packages 'emms
    "s"   nil
    "r"   nil)
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'emms-browser-mode-map
    :packages 'emms
    "a"  #'emms-browser-add-tracks
    "A"  #'emms-browser-add-tracks-and-play
    "b"  '(:ignore t :which-key "browse by")
    "bA" #'emms-browse-by-album
    "ba" #'emms-browse-by-artist
    "bg" #'emms-browse-by-genre
    "bs" #'emms-smart-browse
    "by" #'emms-browse-by-year
    "c"  #'emms-browser-clear-playlist
    "S"  '(:ignore t :which-key "search")
    "SA" '(emms-browser-search-by-album  :which-key "by album")
    "Sa" '(emms-browser-search-by-artist :which-key "by artist")
    "Ss" '(emms-browser-search-by-names  :which-key "by name")
    "St" '(emms-browser-search-by-names  :which-key "by title")
    "q"  #'kill-this-buffer)
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'emms-playlist-mode-map
    :packages 'emms
    "d" #'emms-playlist-mode-kill-track
    "p" #'emms-playlist-mode-play-smart
    "q" #'kill-this-buffer))

Finding files from EMMS

EMMS has two default ways of finding files: either a built-in function relatively slow but portable, or with find which is arguably faster but less portable. Honestly, I don’t care about portability, I’ll always use this Emacs config on Linux, but I don’t want to use find either since there is something even faster: fd.

First we’ll declare a variable that can hold the path to the fd executable:

(defvar emms-source-file-fd (executable-find "fd"))

Then, we need to declare a new function that will use fd to find files. The function, as specified by the documentation of emms-source-file-directory-tree-function, receives two arguments dir and regex. We can work with that!

(defun emms-source-file-directory-tree-fd (dir regex)
  "Return a list of all files under DIR that match REGEX.
This function uses the external fd utility. The name for fd may
be supplied using `emms-source-file-fd'."
  (with-temp-buffer
    (call-process emms-source-file-fd
                  nil t nil
                  "-L" ; follow symlinks
                  regex
                  "-t f"
                  (expand-file-name dir))
    (delete ""
            (split-string (buffer-substring (point-min)
                                          (point-max))
                          "\n"))))

We can finally set this function as our search function.

(setq emms-source-file-directory-tree-function #'emms-source-file-directory-tree-fd)

Keybinds

I also want to create a small hydra for manipulating MPD:

(defun shell-command-and-echo (command &optional echo prefix)
  "Run COMMAND and display the result of ECHO prefixed by PREFIX.

Run COMMAND as a shell command.

If ECHO is non nil, display the result of its execution as a
shell command to the minibuffer through `MESSAGE'.

If PREFIX is non nil, it will prefix the output of ECHO in the
minibuffer, both separated by a single space."
  (progn
    (with-temp-buffer
      (shell-command command
                     (current-buffer)
                     (current-buffer))
      (when echo
        (message "%s%s"
                 (if prefix
                     (concat prefix " ")
                   "")
                 (string-trim
                  (shell-command-to-string "mpc volume")))))))

(defhydra hydra-media (:hint nil)
  "
     %s(all-the-icons-material \"volume_up\" :height 1.0 :v-adjust -0.2)
     [_s_]
« [_c_] _p_ [_r_] » [_S_] %s(all-the-icons-material \"stop\")
     [_t_]
     %s(all-the-icons-material \"volume_down\" :height 1.0 :v-adjust -0.2)
"
  ("c" emms-player-mpd-previous)
  ("r" emms-player-mpd-next)
  ("t" (shell-command-and-echo "mpc volume -2" "mpc volume" "mpc"))
  ("s" (shell-command-and-echo "mpc volume +2" "mpc volume" "mpc"))
  ("p" (shell-command-and-echo "mpc toggle"))
  ("S" emms-player-mpd-stop)
  ("q" nil :exit t))

Nov

Nov is a major-mode for reading EPUB files within Emacs. Since I have it, I don’t need any other Epub reader on my computer! Plus this one is customizable and programmable, why would I use any other EPUB reader?

(use-package nov
  :straight (:build t)
  :defer t
  :mode ("\\.epub\\'" . nov-mode)
  :general
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'nov-mode-map
    :packages 'nov
    "c"   #'nov-previous-document
    "t"   #'nov-scroll-up
    "C-d" #'nov-scroll-up
    "s"   #'nov-scroll-down
    "C-u" #'nov-scroll-down
    "r"   #'nov-next-document
    "gm"  #'nov-display-metadata
    "gn"  #'nov-next-document
    "gp"  #'nov-previous-document
    "gr"  #'nov-render-document
    "gt"  #'nov-goto-toc
    "gv"  #'nov-view-source
    "gV"  #'nov-view-content-source)
  :config
  (setq nov-text-width 95))

PDF Tools

pdf-tools enables PDF support for Emacs, much better than its built-in support with DocView. Aside from the classical settings such as keybinds, I also enable the midnight colours by default; think of it as an equivalent of Zathura’s recolour feature which kind of enables a dark mode for PDFs.

(use-package pdf-tools
  :defer t
  :magic ("%PDF" . pdf-view-mode)
  :straight (:build t)
  :hook (pdf-tools-enabled . pdf-view-midnight-minor-mode)
  :general
  (phundrak/evil
    :keymaps 'pdf-view-mode-map
    :packages 'pdf-tools
    "y"   #'pdf-view-kill-ring-save
    "t"   #'evil-collection-pdf-view-next-line-or-next-page
    "s"   #'evil-collection-pdf-view-previous-line-or-previous-page)
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps 'pdf-view-mode-map
    :packages 'pdf-tools
    "a"  '(:ignore t :which-key "annotations")
    "aD" #'pdf-annot-delete
    "at" #'pdf-annot-attachment-dired
    "ah" #'pdf-annot-add-highlight-markup-annotation
    "al" #'pdf-annot-list-annotations
    "am" #'pdf-annot-markup-annotation
    "ao" #'pdf-annot-add-strikeout-markup-annotation
    "as" #'pdf-annot-add-squiggly-markup-annotation
    "at" #'pdf-annot-add-text-annotation
    "au" #'pdf-annot-add-underline-markup-annotation

    "f"  '(:ignore t :which-key "fit")
    "fw" #'pdf-view-fit-width-to-window
    "fh" #'pdf-view-fit-height-to-window
    "fp" #'pdf-view-fit-page-to-window

    "s"  '(:ignore t :which-key "slice/search")
    "sb" #'pdf-view-set-slice-from-bounding-box
    "sm" #'pdf-view-set-slice-using-mouse
    "sr" #'pdf-view-reset-slice
    "ss" #'pdf-occur

    "o"  'pdf-outline
    "m"  'pdf-view-midnight-minor-mode)
  :config
  (with-eval-after-load 'pdf-view
    (csetq pdf-view-midnight-colors '("#d8dee9" . "#2e3440"))))

One thing pdf-tools doesn’t handle is restoring the PDF to the last point it was visited — in other words, open the PDF where I last left it.

(use-package pdf-view-restore
  :after pdf-tools
  :defer t
  :straight (:build t)
  :hook (pdf-view-mode . pdf-view-restore-mode)
  :config
  (setq pdf-view-restore-filename (expand-file-name ".tmp/pdf-view-restore"
                                                    user-emacs-directory)))

Project Management

Magit

Magit is an awesome wrapper around Git for Emacs! Very often, I go from disliking to really hating Git GUI clients because they often obfuscate which Git commands are used to make things happen. Such a thing doesn’t happen with Magit, it’s pretty transparent, but it still provides some awesome features and visualizations of what you are doing and what Git is doing! In short, I absolutely love it!

(use-package magit
  :straight (:build t)
  :defer t
  :init
  (setq forge-add-default-bindings nil)
  :config
  (add-hook 'magit-process-find-password-functions 'magit-process-password-auth-source)
  <<magit-angular-keywords-highlight>>
  (csetq magit-clone-default-directory "~/fromGIT/"
         magit-display-buffer-function #'magit-display-buffer-same-window-except-diff-v1)
  (with-eval-after-load 'evil-collection
    (phundrak/evil
      :packages '(evil-collection magit)
      :keymaps '(magit-mode-map magit-log-mode-map magit-status-mode-map)
      :states 'normal
      "t" #'magit-tag
      "s" #'magit-stage))
  :general
  (:keymaps '(git-rebase-mode-map)
   :packages 'magit
   "C-t" #'evil-next-line
   "C-s" #'evil-previous-line)
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps 'git-rebase-mode-map
    :packages 'magit
    "," #'with-editor-finish
    "k" #'with-editor-cancel
    "a" #'with-editor-cancel))

There is currently a bug in Emacs TRAMP as described in issue #4720open in new window of Magit and bug 62093open in new window of Emacs. A workaround is to redefine the old tramp-send-command function through an advice.

(defun my--tramp-send-command--workaround-stty-icanon-bug (conn-vec orig-command &rest args)
  "See: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/4720"
  (let ((command
         (if (string= "stty -icrnl -icanon min 1 time 0" orig-command)
             "stty -icrnl"
           orig-command)))
    (append (list conn-vec command) args)))

(defun my--tramp-send-command--workaround-stty-icanon-bug--filter-args (args)
  (apply #'my--tramp-send-command--workaround-stty-icanon-bug args))

(advice-add 'tramp-send-command :filter-args
            #'my--tramp-send-command--workaround-stty-icanon-bug--filter-args)

I also want to highlight these angular-style keywords in commit messages.

(defun my/magit-log-highlight-angular-keywords (_rev msg)
  "Highlight angular-style keywords in commit messages."
  (let ((boundary 0))
    (when (string-match (rx (seq (or "feat" "fix" "docs" "style" "refactor"
                                     "perf" "test" "chore")
                                 (* "(" (* (not ")")) ")")
                                 ":"))
                        msg
                        boundary)
        (setq boundary (match-end 0))
        (magit--put-face (match-beginning 0) boundary
                         'magit-keyword msg)))
  msg)

(advice-add #'magit-log-propertize-keywords
            :after
            #'my/magit-log-highlight-angular-keywords)

Alphapapaopen in new window also created an awesome package for Magit: magit-todos which display in the Magit buffer a list of TODOs found in the current project to remind you of what to do next.

First, let’s setup our todo keywords with hl-todo. A good few todo keywords are already defined in the hl-todo-keyword-faces variable. Why not use them? hl-todo-mode enables fontlock highlight of these keywords in a buffer. Let’s enable this mode globally.

(use-package hl-todo
  :defer t
  :straight (:build t)
  :init (global-hl-todo-mode 1))

We can now configure properly magit-todos. Notice my custom function hooked to magit-mode-hook. This is because this package tries to find TODOs in all files in the current project, and my yadm repository’s root is my $HOME. So, yeah, no magit-todos in yadm.

(use-package magit-todos
  :straight (:build t)
  :after (magit hl-todo)
  :init
  (with-eval-after-load 'magit
   (defun my/magit-todos-if-not-yadm ()
     "Deactivate magit-todos if in yadm Tramp connection.
If `magit--default-directory' points to a yadm Tramp directory,
deactivate `magit-todos-mode', otherwise enable it."
     (if (string-prefix-p "/yadm:" magit--default-directory)
         (magit-todos-mode -1)
       (magit-todos-mode +1)))
   (add-hook 'magit-mode-hook #'my/magit-todos-if-not-yadm))
  :config
  (setq magit-todos-ignore-case nil))

Forge

Forge acts as an interface for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket inside Magit. A lot of possibilities are present, you can read issues and pull requests, create them, and fork projects among other things.

NOTE: Make sure to configure a GitHub token before using this package!

(use-package forge
  :after magit
  :straight (:build t)
  :init
  (evil-collection-forge-setup)
  :general
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :keymaps 'forge-topic-mode-map
    "c"  #'forge-create-post
    "e"  '(:ignore t :which-key "edit")
    "ea" #'forge-edit-topic-assignees
    "ed" #'forge-edit-topic-draft
    "ek" #'forge-delete-comment
    "el" #'forge-edit-topic-labels
    "em" #'forge-edit-topic-marks
    "eM" #'forge-merge
    "en" #'forge-edit-topic-note
    "ep" #'forge-edit-post
    "er" #'forge-edit-topic-review-requests
    "es" #'forge-edit-topic-state
    "et" #'forge-edit-topic-title))

Projectile

First, I need to install ripgrep, a faster reimplementation of grep, which will be very useful when managing projects.

(use-package ripgrep
  :if (executable-find "rg")
  :straight (:build t)
  :defer t)

Now, I can use projectile, which is sort of the de facto standard project manager in Emacs. I know there’s project.el, but… Eh… I’m used to projectile.

(use-package projectile
  :straight (:build t)
  :diminish projectile-mode
  :custom ((projectile-completion-system 'ivy))
  :init
  (setq projectile-switch-project-action #'projectile-dired)
  :config
  (projectile-mode)
  (add-to-list 'projectile-ignored-projects "~/")
  (add-to-list 'projectile-globally-ignored-directories "^node_modules$")
  :general
  (phundrak/leader-key
    "p" '(:keymap projectile-command-map :which-key "projectile")))

And of course, there is a counsel package dedicated to projectile.

(use-package counsel-projectile
  :straight (:build t)
  :after (counsel projectile)
  :config (counsel-projectile-mode))

Recentf

The built-in package recentf keeps track of recently opened files. But by default, it only follows the twenty most recent files, that not nearly enough for me, so I raise it to two hundred. I also don’t want recentf to follow the Elfeed database, so I add it to the list of excluded files.

(use-package recentf
  :straight (:build t :type built-in)
  :custom ((recentf-max-saved-items 2000))
  :config
  (add-all-to-list 'recentf-exclude
                   `(,(rx (* any)
                          (or "elfeed-db"
                              "eln-cache"
                              "conlanging/content"
                              "org/config"
                              "/Mail/Sent"
                              ".cache/")
                          (* any)
                          (? (or "html" "pdf" "tex" "epub")))
                     ,(rx (* any)
                          ".elc"
                          eol)
                     ,(rx "/"
                          (or "rsync" "ssh" "tmp" "yadm" "sudoedit" "sudo")
                          (* any)))))

Screenshot

screenshot.el is a nice utility package made by TEC. It allows the user to take a screenshot of a specific area of a buffer and make it look nice.

(use-package screenshot
  :defer t
  :straight (screenshot :build t
                        :type git
                        :host github
                        :repo "tecosaur/screenshot")
  :config (load-file (locate-library "screenshot.el")))

Shells

Shell-pop

Shell-pop allows the user to easily call for a new shell in a pop-up buffer.

(use-package shell-pop
  :defer t
  :straight (:build t)
  :custom
  (shell-pop-default-directory "/home/phundrak")
  (shell-pop-shell-type (quote ("eshell" "*eshell*" (lambda () (eshell shell-pop-term-shell)))))
  (shell-pop-window-size 30)
  (shell-pop-full-span nil)
  (shell-pop-window-position "bottom")
  (shell-pop-autocd-to-working-dir t)
  (shell-pop-restore-window-configuration t)
  (shell-pop-cleanup-buffer-at-process-exit t))

VTerm

VTerm gives Emacs access to regular shells with an almost regular emulator. Be aware you will most likely need to hit C-c twice to send an interrupt signal.

(use-package vterm
  :defer t
  :straight t
  :config
  (setq vterm-shell "/usr/bin/fish"))

One annoying think with vterm is it only can create one buffer, you can’t have multiple vterm buffers by default. multi-vterm fixes this issue.

(use-package multi-vterm
  :after vterm
  :defer t
  :straight (:build t)
  :general
  (phundrak/major-leader-key
    :packages '(vterm multi-vterm)
    :keymap 'vterm-mode-map
    "c" #'multi-vterm
    "n" #'multi-vterm-next
    "p" #'multi-vterm-prev))

Another really neat package is eshell-vterm which allows to use vterm to run visual commands when in Eshell.

(use-package eshell-vterm
  :after eshell
  :straight (:build t)
  :config
  (eshell-vterm-mode)
  (defalias 'eshell/v 'eshell-exec-visual))

XWidgets Webkit Browser

I used to use the xwidgets webkit browser in order to view or preview HTML files from Emacs, but it seems the Cairo background transparency patch breaks it. So while this isn’t patched, I will disable Xwidgets in my Emacs build, and these keybinds will not be tangled.

(phundrak/evil
 :keymaps 'xwidget-webkit-mode-map
 "<mouse-4>" #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down-line
 "<mouse-5>" #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up-line
 "c"         #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-backward
 "t"         #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up-line
 "s"         #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down-line
 "r"         #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-forward
 "h"         #'xwidget-webkit-goto-history
 "C"         #'xwidget-webkit-back
 "R"         #'xwidget-webkit-forward
 "C-r"       #'xwidget-webkit-reload
 "j"         nil
 "k"         nil
 "l"         nil
 "H"         nil
 "L"         nil
 "C-d"       #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-up
 "C-u"       #'xwidget-webkit-scroll-down)

Wttr.inopen in new window

(use-package wttrin
  :defer t
  :straight (wttrin :build t
                    :local-repo "~/fromGIT/emacs-packages/emacs-wttrin"
                    :type git)
                    ;; :host github
                    ;; :repo "Phundrak/emacs-wttrin"
  :config
  (setq wttrin-default-cities '("Aubervilliers" "Paris" "Lyon" "Nonières" "Saint Agrève")
        wttrin-use-metric t))