Living in Emacs

Dependencies: Cask, pallet.

Third party libraries are managed by Cask and pallet. Every morning I open up the terminal and enter the emacs.d directory, type cask update will update and byte-compile the packages listed in a file named Cask. When you install packages inside Emacs, pallet makes sure that Cask is updated accordingly.

View mode is a minor mode for viewing text but not editing it.

When View mode is enabled, commands that do not change the buffer contents are available as usual. Kill commands insert text in kill buffers but do not delete. Most other commands beep and tell the user that the buffer is read-only.

Via view-mode, we can separate editing mode from viewing mode in Emacs, similar to editing/command mode separation in Vim. The main purpose is to avoid accidental modification of the buffer when we only want to do non-modifying operations, e.g., view, search, navigate, copy, etc. The major advantage over evil-mode is that view-mode is lightweight, builtin and non-obstructive.

Dependencies: helm, helm-bibtex, org-ref, PDF-tools, deft.

My configuration provide the following functionalities:

• Viewing PDF inside Emacs.
• Fuzzy-search bibtex entries by authors name, title, year and keywords.
• Associate PDF file, note file with a bibtex entry, and jump among them. Specifically, C-c r p opens the PDF file, C-c r n opens the note file and C-c r c jumps to the bibtex entry. For example, when you are viewing the PDF in Emacs, C-c r n opens the note file (create one if necessary), C-c r c jumps to the bibtex entry for this PDF file.
• Fuzzy-search notes.
• Quick insert citations to org files, which can be exported to TeX, PDF or HTML with appropriate reference list.
• Cleanup/format bibtex entries, auto construct keys for bibtex entries.