emacs-prelude/prelude/prelude-ui.el

;;; prelude-ui.el --- Emacs Prelude: UI optimizations and tweaks.
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Bozhidar Batsov
;;
;; Author: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
;; URL: http://batsov.com/emacs-prelude
;; Version: 1.0.0
;; Keywords: convenience

;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.

;;; Commentary:

;; We dispense with most of the point and click UI, reduce the startup noise,
;; configure smooth scolling and a nice theme that's easy on the eyes (zenburn).

;;; License:

;; 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 GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

;;; Code:

;; the toolbar is just a waste of valuable screen estate
;; in a tty tool-bar-mode does not properly auto-load, and is
;; already disabled anyway
(when (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode)
  (tool-bar-mode -1))
;; the menu bar is mostly useless as well
;; but removing it under OS X doesn't make much sense
(defun prelude-frame-config (frame)
  "Custom behaviours for new frames."
  (if (eq system-type 'darwin)
      (with-selected-frame frame
        (if (display-graphic-p)
            (modify-frame-parameters frame '((menu-bar-lines . 1)))
          (modify-frame-parameters frame '((menu-bar-lines . 0)))))
    (menu-bar-mode -1)))

;; run now
(prelude-frame-config (selected-frame))
;; and later
(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions 'prelude-frame-config)

;; the blinking cursor is nothing, but an annoyance
(blink-cursor-mode -1)

;; disable startup screen
(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

;; nice scrolling
(setq scroll-margin 0
      scroll-conservatively 100000
      scroll-preserve-screen-position 1)

;; mode line settings
(line-number-mode t)
(column-number-mode t)
(size-indication-mode t)

;; make the fringe (gutter) smaller
;; the argument is a width in pixels (the default is 8)
(if (fboundp 'fringe-mode)
    (fringe-mode 4))

;; enable y/n answers
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

;; more useful frame title, that show either a file or a
;; buffer name (if the buffer isn't visiting a file)
(setq frame-title-format
      '("" invocation-name " Prelude - " (:eval (if (buffer-file-name)
                                            (abbreviate-file-name (buffer-file-name))
                                          "%b"))))

;; use zenburn as the default theme
(load-theme 'zenburn t)

(provide 'prelude-ui)
;;; prelude-ui.el ends here