emacs-prelude/modules/prelude-ui.el
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;;; prelude-ui.el --- Emacs Prelude: UI optimizations and tweaks.
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2011 Bozhidar Batsov
;;
;; Author: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar.batsov@gmail.com>
;; URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/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)
(fringe-mode 4)
;; enable y/n answers
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
;; custom Emacs 24 color themes support
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path (concat prelude-dir "themes/"))
;; use zenburn as the default theme
(load-theme 'zenburn t)
(provide 'prelude-ui)
;;; prelude-ui.el ends here