Gettin The Sweet Sauce 64

[GekkoP]

^ Well, I'm not sure I'm able to use xaos configs yet. I need to understand this starter kit first, and learning about it is on my todo list (which I made with org-mode, and I love it and... ok, enough).
So far I'm using some of yours config. C indentation (yep, still on it using learncodethehardway) and repositories mainly. And it's working real good. I want to go slow, be sure to know the basic keybindings very well and to work comfortably. I'm going slow, but man I'm loving it.

[GekkoP]

Here comes the noob.
Though emacs-w3m, org-mode and TangoDark are working fine on my emacs -nw, I can't install packages using el-get-install. Every package's name I put in after pressing ENTER gives me the infamous "Symbol's function definition is void: entry".
Now I think I messed up my .emacs, but I'm pretty sure I took almost everything from DebianJoe's github.
Here's my .emacs:

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(setq browse-url-browser-function 'w3m-browse-url)
(autoload 'w3m-browse-url "w3m" "Ask a WWW browser to show a URL." t)
;; optional keyboard short-cut
(global-set-key "\C-xm" 'browse-url-at-point)

(require 'package)
;; Add the original Emacs Lisp Package Archive
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("elpa" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/"))
;; Add the user-contributed repository
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
;; Add Melpa
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))

;; Use El-Get to sync repos and dependencies.
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")

(unless (require 'el-get nil 'noerror)
  (with-current-buffer
      (url-retrieve-synchronously
       "https://raw.github.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el")
    (let (el-get-master-branch)
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (eval-print-last-sexp))))

;;Turn on iswitchb to change buffers with C^x b
(iswitchb-mode 1)
;;Allow keys to work like dzen, because I'm lazy
(defun iswitchb-local-keys ()
  (mapc (lambda (K)
(let* ((key (car K)) (fun (cdr K)))
(define-key iswitchb-mode-map (edmacro-parse-keys key) fun)))
'(("<right>" . iswitchb-next-match)
("<left>" . iswitchv-prev-match)
("<up>" . ignore)
("<down>" . ignore))))
(add-hook 'iswitchb-define-mode-map-hook 'iswitchb-local-keys)
(require 'edmacro)

;; C-specific Indentation
;; First FOUR space indents, like Odin intended
;; and then go with the way Linus indents...the RIGHT way.
(setq c-default-style "linux"
      c-basic-offset 4)

;; Org-mode log DONE tasks
(setq org-log-done 'time)
(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(custom-enabled-themes (quote (tango-dark))))
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )

Any suggestion, emacs masters?

[DebianJoe]

https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/issues/1257

It seems that you are not alone. Do you get an error on init with emacs? If not, recompiling your repos as discussed on the el-get git repo issue-page may fix it.

[xaos52]

Start your emacs from the commandline with

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emacs --debug-init

and post the trace that it spits out.

[GekkoP]

No error on init, but recompiling the repos worked. Thanks!

[DebianJoe]

No problem. Glad to see that's all it took.

[DebianJoe]

Shell Scripting Tmux Layouts

I went through the posts with "tmux" in them, and didn't see this pop up anywhere else, and it seems that for the Emacs/Tmux builds, it could be pretty useful.

The way that I do it is I have a single little shell script that uses a case-switch for loading different layouts, and I tie it to an alias...kind of like:

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#!/bin/sh

# Tmux Layouts #
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    # in case of no arguments, this is default layout #
    # this creates a NEW window, leaving the last one #
    # totally unchanged, and opens an application layout #
    tmux new-window -a
    tmux rename-window "Main"
    tmux split-window -h
    tmux last-pane
    tmux send-keys "program -switches" C-m
    tmux last-pane
    tmux split-window -p80
    tmux last-pane
    tmux split-window -h
    tmux send-keys "some other program" C-m
    tmux last-pane
    tmux send-keys "program -switches" C-m
    tmux last-pane
else 
case "$1" in
    "bottom")
	    # creates 3 pane bottom-stack #
	    tmux split-window -v
	    tmux split-window -h -p 66
	    tmux split-window -h
	    tmux select-pane -t 0
	    tmux send-keys "clear" C-m
	    ;;
    "top")
	    # creates 3 pane top-stack #
	    tmux split-window -v
	    tmux last-pane
	    tmux split-window -h -p 66
	    tmux split-window -h
	    tmux select-pane -t 0
	    tmux send-keys "clear" C-m
	    ;;
    "left")
	    # creates 3 pane left stack #
	    tmux split-window -h
	    tmux select-pane -t 0
	    tmux split-window -v -p 66
	    tmux split-window -v
	    tmux select-pane -t 0
	    tmux send-keys "clear" C-m
	    ;;
    "right")
	    # creates 3 pane right-stack #
	    tmux split-window -h
	    tmux split-window -v -p 66
	    tmux split-window -v
	    tmux select-pane -t 0
	    tmux send-keys "clear" C-m
	    ;;
# if nothing else #
    *) echo "Invalid layout"
	    ;;
esac
fi

Now, this is just a rough idea of what could be done, but the things that I find to be useful is that when you're testing a layout, you can "C^a q" to get a display over each pane that shows how tmux has indexed the panes. So, you can use the "tmux select-pane -t <index#>" argument in your script to define which pane you wish to manipulate. From there, 'tmux send-keys "whatever you want to send" C-m' will send keystrokes with a enter to the targeted terminal.

This is really useful for something like launching programs (or other scripts) in a predefined pane. The limits of what you could do is really only determined by how much imagination you have.

I strongly recommend "man tmux" to get an idea of how you can use arguments in the script to control percentage slices, window creation/naming, session merging, etc. The above example is a super-basic idea of how you could potentially use the system, but it's only a point to jump off into making layouts that fit your specific needs.

[ivanovnegro]

I ignored this thread at first sight because of emacs of course. :D But this passion of Joe is incredible so I read through this whole thread and it was really interesting. It is already one of those famous threads on forums that you have to be a part of it and subscribe.
It won't make me an emacs user but I am considering to try it out.

Thanks Joe!

[machinebacon]

Joe has really managed to turn a few people into emacs-curious (like bi-curious, not really sucking on the wrong nipple, but dreaming of it).
I have already pulled a few people into emacs, their reactions were like: how can I remember all these keystrokes? (using the gtk-version makes stuff quite easy, tbh)

[DebianJoe]

There's a lot of reasons to use emacs, and I'm sure there's an equal amount to not (much like everything else in Linuxland.) I love it, personally. The ability to modify an editor for specific purposes in an actual programming language is really useful. Such as, let's say I hate trailing whitespace (which I do), but I don't like having to manually go through and remove it manually, and typing "M^x delete-trailing-whitespace" after every set of changes I make annoys me.

I could always set up a hook in my .emacs file like:

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(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)

...and then when I go to save files, they are cleaned up first. Good stuff.

[GekkoP]

Interesting note from an Emacs beginner.
Installing random stuff via package-el is really useful to learn something new. I discovered vkill for instance, which let me have a look at the processes running on my Elektra and kill them if I want to without leaving Emacs.
I also installed some new theme just for the sake of have a look at different colors. I got cyberpunk-theme (I'm a William Gibson fan), tried it with M-x load-theme and fell in love with it. Then I restarted Emacs and the theme wasn't loaded. Probably something you already know, but packages installed with package-el are activated after .emacs is loaded. I needed to put (package-initialize) in there just before (load-theme 'cyberpunk t) to be able to have my new beautiful theme working. Nice stuff.
If there's a different/better way to manage this, please do let me know.

[bones]

I got cyberpunk-theme (I'm a William Gibson fan), tried it with M-x load-theme and fell in love with it.

Off topic, but I'm a big Gibson fan, myself. Met him once, and got a signed copy of Virtual Light. Currently reading Spook Country.

[DebianJoe]

That's a perfectly acceptable way to load your package GekkoP, sounds cool. Screenshot?

[GekkoP]

Here it is.

[DebianJoe]

^^ nice. :)

[machinebacon]

Nice, Gekko! Can I have your tmux panel/bar lines from the conf file please?

[GekkoP]

Of course. I stole it from gutterslob's config a while ago.

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## status line
set -g status-utf8 on
set -g status-justify left
set -g status-bg default
set -g status-fg colour12
set -g status-interval 2

## window status
#setw -g window-status-format " #F#I:#W#F "
#setw -g window-status-current-format " #F#I:#W#F "
setw -g window-status-format "#[fg=magenta]#[bg=black] #I #[bg=cyan]#[fg=colour8] #W "
setw -g window-status-current-format "#[bg=brightmagenta]#[fg=colour8] #I #[fg=colour8]#[bg=colour14] #W "
setw -g window-status-current-bg colour0
setw -g window-status-current-fg colour11
setw -g window-status-current-attr dim
setw -g window-status-bg green
setw -g window-status-fg black
setw -g window-status-attr reverse
setw -g window-status-content-bg colour0
setw -g window-status-content-fg colour11
setw -g window-status-content-attr bold,blink,reverse

## loud or quiet?
set-option -g visual-activity off
set-option -g visual-bell off
set-option -g visual-content off
set-option -g visual-silence off
set-window-option -g monitor-activity off
set-window-option -g monitor-content on
set-option -g bell-action none

# Info on left (I don't have a session display for now)
set -g status-left ''

[machinebacon]

Mille grazie!

[GekkoP]

Prego :)

[GekkoP]

@DebianJoe
There's a typo on your dotfiles/.emacs on git.

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'(("<right>" . iswitchb-next-match)
 ("<left>" . iswitchv-prev-match)

"iswitchv" needs to be "iswitchb" in order to work.