Yes, you can get Emacs preset to be more productive!

Looking for an Emacs configuration file with many packages already enabled and a more pleasant set of defaults? Here’s the place to find one! That will save you hours (and hours) of configuration…

The “Emacs Leuven” configuration file is packaged as an Emacs Lisp library, and ready to be used by you.

And it is optimized to keep the Emacs startup time fast (around 2 seconds)!

Download

Get the full Git repository at https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven using the following command:

git clone git://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven.git

Installation

Using the Emacs Leuven library is very easy: you just need to…

• Download and install emacs-leuven.

  ;; Make sure `emacs-leuven.el' is in your `load-path'.
  (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/emacs-leuven")
  
  ;; Require it as normal.
  (require 'emacs-leuven)
  
  ;; Place your settings here, which can override the settings of Emacs-Leuven.
      

• Restart Emacs.

Some better defaults

• Unnecessary spaces at the end of the lines are indicated by yellow blocks.

Packages

Subject	Package	Description
Basic editing commands	undo-tree
Help	info+
The mark and the region	goto-chg
	expand-region
	multiple-cursors
	ace-jump-mode
	ace-link
Controlling the display	pager
	fancy-narrow
	highlight-symbol
	color-identifiers-mode
	diff-hl
	ws-butler
	powerline
	interaction-log
Searching and replacement	fuzzy
	anzu
Commands for fixing typos	dictionary
Files Handling	helm
	helm-swoop
Major and minor modes	csv-mode
	helm-descbinds
Indentation	indent-guide
Commands for human languages	key-chord
	boxquote
SGML and HTML modes	tidy
Editing Programs	imenu-anywhere
	hideshowvis
	flycheck
Maintaining programs	litable
	git-timemachine
	git-messenger
Abbrevs	yasnippet
	auto-complete
	company
	company-quickhelp
Gnus	bbdb
Document viewing	pdf-tools
Running shell commands from Emacs	multi-term
	cygwin-mount
Hyperlinking and navigation features	google-this
	google-translate
Customization	guide-key
	ace-window
	auctex
	bookmark+
	circe
	diminish
	dired+
	dired-single
	ess
	fill-column-indicator
	flycheck
	flycheck-ledger
	git-commit-mode
	graphviz-dot-mode
	htmlize
	idle-require
	ledger-mode
	leuven-theme
	rainbow-mode
	unbound

To list packages which should NOT be installed by Emacs Leuven (neither proposed for installation), add something like this into your configuration file:

(setq leuven-excluded-packages
      '(useless-package
        other-annoying-package))

Keyboard shortcuts

Save time and boost your productivity with Emacs Leuven keyboard shortcuts.

Key binding conventions: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html

General

Global key bindings.

Shortcut	What it runs
<f2>	save-buffer
<S-f2>	org-save-buffer-and-do-related
<C-f2>	(for interaction-log mode)
<f3>	find-file (or helm-for-files)
<f4>	helm-semantic-or-imenu
<M-f4>	save-buffers-kill-terminal
<f7>	leuven-babel-translate
<f8>	call-last-kbd-macro
<S-f8>	leuven-toggle-kbd-macro-recording-on/off
<C-f8>	name-last-kbd-macro
<C-f9>	leuven-vc-jump
<C-f11>	bbdb
<f12>	bury-buffer
<S-f12>	leuven-kill-this-buffer-without-query
<C-f12>	leuven-revert-buffer-without-query

Help

Shortcut	What it runs
<f1>	info
<S-f1>	man-follow
<C-f1>	info-lookup-symbol

Edit

Shortcut	What it runs
<f11>	undo
C-S-z	redo
<S-f11>	redo

Windows

Shortcut	What it runs
<f5>	delete-other-windows
<f6>	other-window
<C-f6>	balance-windows
C-=	compare-windows
C-c ~	leuven-swap-windows
C-c |	leuven-toggle-window-split

Text

Shortcut	What it runs
<next>	pager-page-down
<prior>	pager-page-up

Lines

Shortcut	What it runs
<return>	newline-and-indent
C-c ^	sort-lines
M-G	what-line
<C-S-down>	leuven-move-line-down
<C-S-up>	leuven-move-line-up

Code folding

Shortcut	What it runs

Search / Find / Replace

Shortcut	What it runs
C-c o	helm-occur
C-o	leuven–isearch-occur
C-o	occur

Spelling

Shortcut	What it runs
C-$	flyspell-buffer
C-M-$	leuven-flyspell-toggle-dictionary

Build

Shortcut	What it runs
<f9>	recompile
<S-f9>	make-clean
<f10>	next-error
<S-f10>	previous-error
<C-f10>	first-error

Bookmarks

Shortcut	What it runs
<C-f2>	bmkp-toggle-autonamed-bookmark-set/delete
<S-f2>	bmkp-next-bookmark-this-file/buffer-repeat
<C-S-f2>	bmkp-delete-all-autonamed-for-this-buffer)
C-x r b	helm-bookmark-ext
C-x r l	helm-bookmarks

Org mode

Shortcut	What it runs
<S-f2>	org-save-buffer-and-do-related
<C-f3>	leuven-org-todo-list-current-dir
<f4>	helm-org-headlines
<M-f6>	visible-mode
C-M-]	org-cycle-global ;; <S-tab>
M-]	org-cycle-local
C-c l	org-store-link
C-c c	org-capture
C-c b	org-switchb
C-c a	org-agenda
C-c L	org-insert-link-global
C-c o	org-open-at-point-global
C-c C-b	org-switch-to-agenda
\C-\M-n	outline-next-visible-heading
\C-\M-p	outline-previous-visible-heading
\C-\M-u	outline-up-heading
C-c C-x f	org-footnote-action
C-c C-x C-i	org-clock-in
C-c C-x C-j	org-clock-goto
C-c C-x C-o	org-clock-out
C-c C-x C-q	leuven-org-clock-in-interrupted-task
(	leuven-org-agenda-toggle-tasks-details
C-c C-e	org-export-dispatch
M-P	htmlize-buffer
C-c C-e h o	htmlize-view-buffer
M-;	leuven-org-comment-dwim
C-M-\	leuven-org-indent-region
C-c C-v C-d	org-babel-demarcate-block
C-c m	org-mime-subtree
C-c m	leuven-mail-subtree
N	leuven-org-agenda-new
Z	leuven-org-agenda-mark-done-and-add-followup

Dired

Shortcut	What it runs
<return>	dired-single-buffer
<mouse-1>	dired-single-buffer-mouse
^	(anonymous function)
e	browse-url-of-dired-file
E	w32-dired-open-files-externally
C-c 1	find-name-dired
C-c 2	find-grep-dired
C-c 3	rgrep

Other shortcuts

Shortcut	What it runs
C-c SPC	ace-jump
C-)	match-paren
x	leuven-vc-dir-hide-up-to-date-and-unregistered
E	vc-ediff
=	leuven-vc-diff
M-?	etags-select-find-tag-at-point
C-c e	ecb-minor-mode
M-/	hippie-expand
<tab>	ac-expand

Other shortcuts

I still have to sort them out, by mode (when applicable).

Shortcut	What it runs
<	scroll-calendar-right
>	scroll-calendar-left
<C-down>	comint-next-matching-input-from-input
<C-up>	comint-previous-matching-input-from-input
<down>	comint-next-input
<up>	comint-previous-input
<C-backspace>	backward-kill-word
<left>	speedbar-contract-line
<right>	speedbar-expand-line
<S-return>	leuven-ess-eval
M–	ess-smart-underscore
C-*	leuven-hlt-highlight-current-word
C-c !	shell
C-c .	leuven-insert-current-date
C-c C-c	tidy-buffer
C-c C-x nil
C-c d l	dictionary-lookup-definition
C-c d m	dictionary-match-words
C-c d s	dictionary-search
C-c g g	leuven-google-search
C-c g r	leuven-google-search-region
C-c g s	google
C-c g w	leuven-google-search-word-at-point
C-c n
C-c q	boxquote-region
C-c s	yas-insert-snippet
C-c t	toggle-truncate-lines
C-c T	multi-term
C-c z	toggle-full-screen
C-h A	apropos-variable
C-h E	elisp-index-search
C-S-n	hlt-next-highlight
C-S-p	hlt-previous-highlight
C-x b	helm-buffers-list
C-x C-b	electric-buffer-list
C-x C-b	ibuffer
C-x p	proced
M-o
M-p	ps-print-buffer-with-faces
M-x	helm-M-x

Contributing

Issues

Report issues and suggest features and improvements on the GitHub issue tracker.

Patches

I love contributions! Patches under any form are always welcome!

Donations

If you like the emacs-leuven project and feel it is making your life better and easier, you can show your appreciation and help support future development by making a donation through PayPal. Thank you!

Regardless of the donations, emacs-leuven will always be free both as in beer and as in speech.

License

Copyright (C) 1999-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Author: Fabrice Niessen
Keywords: emacs configuration file

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.