NOMAD/programming/emacs-init-file.asciidoc

+Sample emacs init file to have scala support
+============================================
+
+[source,lisp]
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+;;; Fawzi's setup
+;; global variables
+(setq
+ inhibit-startup-screen t
+ column-number-mode t
+ scroll-error-top-bottom t
+ use-package-always-ensure t)
+
+(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
+
+; work around for bug that made accented characters not typeable
+(require 'iso-transl)
+; mac fixes
+(when (eq system-type 'darwin)
+  (setq mac-right-option-modifier 'none)   ; use right alt as alt on mac
+  (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/local/bin") ; add brew stuff to the exec path
+  )
+
+(setq user-mail-address "fawzi.mohamed@fhi-berlin.mpg.de")
+;; use only spaces, no tabs to indent
+(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
+
+;; Melpa
+(require 'package)
+(add-to-list 'package-archives
+             '("melpa-stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)
+;; ensime
+;(add-to-list 'package-archives
+;         '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
+;(when (< emacs-major-version 24)
+  ;; For important compatibility libraries like cl-lib
+(add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/"))
+(package-initialize)
+;(dolist (el '(json-mode scala-mode whitespace-cleanup-mode flx-ido ido-vertical-mode projectile sbt-mode flycheck ensime) nil)
+;  (unless (package-installed-p el)
+;    (package-refresh-contents) (package-install el))
+;  )
+
+(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
+    (package-refresh-contents) (package-install 'use-package))
+(require 'use-package)
+(use-package json-mode :pin melpa-stable)
+(use-package scala-mode
+  :pin melpa-stable)
+(use-package whitespace-cleanup-mode
+  :pin melpa-stable
+  :config
+  (global-whitespace-cleanup-mode)
+)
+;(use-package flx-ido :pin melpa-stable)
+(use-package ido-vertical-mode
+  :pin melpa-stable
+  :config
+  (ido-mode 1)
+  (ido-vertical-mode 1)
+  (setq ido-vertical-define-keys 'C-n-C-p-up-and-down)
+)
+(use-package projectile
+  :pin melpa-stable
+  :config
+  (projectile-global-mode)
+  )
+(use-package sbt-mode :pin melpa-stable)
+(use-package flycheck
+  :pin melpa-stable
+  :config
+ ;(add-hook 'scala-mode-hook 'flycheck-mode)
+  (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'flycheck-mode)
+  )
+(use-package ensime
+  :pin melpa-stable
+  :config
+  (add-hook 'scala-mode-hook 'ensime-scala-mode-hook)
+)
+
+;(use-package flx-ido
+;  :config (flx-ido-mode 1)
+;  ;; disable ido faces to see flx highlights.
+;  (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)
+;  (setq ido-use-faces nil))
+
+
+(global-set-key (kbd "M-g") 'goto-line)
+;; cleanup whitespace of edited pieces of a file
+
+;; spelling
+(use-package ispell
+  :config
+  (add-to-list 'ispell-local-dictionary-alist '("deutsch-hunspell"
+                                                "[[:alpha:]]"
+                                                "[^[:alpha:]]"
+                                                "[']"
+                                                t
+                                                ("-d" "de_DE"); Dictionary file name
+                                                nil
+                                                iso-8859-1))
+
+  (add-to-list 'ispell-local-dictionary-alist '("english-hunspell"
+                                                "[[:alpha:]]"
+                                                "[^[:alpha:]]"
+                                                "[']"
+                                                t
+                                                ("-d" "en_US")
+                                                nil
+                                                iso-8859-1))
+
+  (setq ispell-program-name "hunspell"          ; Use hunspell to correct mistakes
+        ispell-dictionary   "english-hunspell") ; Default dictionary to use
+  (add-hook 'scala-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode)
+  (add-hook 'fundamental-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
+  (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
+  (add-hook 'markdown-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
+  (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode)
+)
+
+;; setup files ending in “.md” to open in markdown-mode
+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode))
+---------------------------------------------------------------------