Sacha Chua continues her series of chats with Emacs luminaries by interviewing Magnar Sveen. Sveen, of course, is the producer of the highly regarded Emacs Rocks! videos as well as the author of such Emacs packages as Expand Region, Multiple Cursors, S, and Dash. As usual with Chua’s chats, they discuss how Sveen came to Emacs, how he uses it in his day-to-day work, and how he’s customized it to his liking. Finally, they go over some of the highlights of his configuration files.
It’s nice to meet the man behind those great videos. Sveen is an engaging guy and has lots of interesting things to say. He notes that his configuration is always evolving and subject to sudden change. I can testify that that’s true. Some time ago I went through his configuration looking for things to steal. During the chat he described some aspects of it that I hadn’t seen before. I’m especially interested in flx-ido, ido-vertical-mode, and guide-key.
Most of that is in his init.el so if you haven’t looked around his configuration before, it’s undoubtedly worth going through the many subsidiary files as well for more ideas. You can find everything in his public GitHub. There’s a lot of good material there so have a look.
The video is a bit over 57 minutes so plan accordingly. If, like me, you’re a Sveen fan, you won’t want to miss it.