My Emacs Configuration

Minimal, clean, fast Emacs setup focused on practical editing and Java development.

Uses modern built-in tools where possible, use-package for everything else.

What this config does

• Optimised startup (GC tuning, lazy loading)
• Modern completion: vertico + orderless + consult + marginalia + embark
• Eglot + jdtls for Java (Eclipse LSP)
• Company, flycheck, yasnippet
• Highlight indent guides, rainbow delimiters
• Sensible defaults: no backup files, no lockfiles, auto-revert, recentf, savehist, saveplace
• Doom-nord-light theme
• Basic org and
• Eat shell

Preview of the theme Doom-nord-light

Installation

git clone https://github.com/user7210unix/emacs ~/.emacs.d

Start Emacs. Packages install automatically.

For Java LSP support:

1. Download latest Eclipse JDT Language Server
   https://download.eclipse.org/jdtls/milestones/
2. Extract to ~/.local/share/jdtls
3. Open a .java file → Eglot starts automatically

Recommended font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font
https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

Key bindings worth remembering

C-s             consult-line
C-x b           consult-buffer
C-x C-r         consult-recent-file
M-g g           consult-goto-line
C-.             embark-act
M-.             embark-dwim

C-c e           eshell
C-c c           compile
C-c r           recompile
C-c k           kill-this-buffer

C-c l a         eglot-code-actions
C-c l r         eglot-rename
C-c l f         eglot-format
C-c l o         organize imports

Notes

• Most packages lazy-load by default (:defer t)
• Java LSP workspace is per-project in ~/.cache/jdtls-workspace
• No huge framework (doom, spacemacs, etc.) – just readable elisp
• Custom file goes to custom.el and is never versioned