DRINKING EMACS NEAT

How to really speed up Emacs
What is good about Emacs is Emacs – Vanilla Emacs
Parasitic packages.

I do not install external packages until I am sure Vanilla Emacs cannot do the job.

Removed all my external packages
Customized Emacs the way I wanted it
Sought Solutions to probelms I normally solve with packages

abbrev-mode
pdf-tools
grep = lgrep and rgrep
grep -nH -e Mom ~/files/*.org –null
Backup of a file
remember-mode
(define-key global-map (kbd "<f9> b") 'remember-finalize) formerly remember-buffer
Electric pairs for org-markup
C-c C-x C-f
goto last place – use mark
show the mark in Emacs
show keystrokes in Emacs (Type C-h l, which invokes view-lossage.)
Open in external applications

;; OPEN FILES IN EXTERNAL APP (use S-! on the file to open)

(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
   '(("\\.pdf$" "firefox")
   ("\\.docx$" "libreoffice --writer")
   ("\\.odt$" "libreoffice --writer")
   ("\\.txt$" "geany")
   ("\\.png$" "viewnior")
   ("\\.jpg$" "viewnior")
   ("\\.tiff$" "viewnior")
   ("\\.tif$" "viewnior")
   ("\\.mkv$" "vlc")
   ("\\.mp4$" "vlc")
   ("\\.avi$" "vlc")
   ("\\.wmv$" "vlc")
   ("\\.mp3$" "audacious")
   ("\\.wav$" "audacious")
   ("\\.html$" "firefox")))

Click on a completion to select it.
In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.

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Postscript added <2025-04-26 Sat>

The idea of a neat Emacs has now gained traction:

https://github.com/LionyxML/emacs-solo/

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