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Emacs Dashboard

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An extensible emacs startup screen showing you what's most important.

Features

Displays an awesome Emacs banner!
Recent files
Bookmarks list
Recent projects list (Depends on projectile or project.el package)
Org mode agenda
Register list
Supports both [[https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el][all-the-icons]] and [[https://github.com/rainstormstudio/nerd-icons.el][nerd-icons]]

Screenshot

[[./etc/screenshot.png]]

Dependencies
You will need the following packages which are all available on MELPA:

[[https://github.com/purcell/page-break-lines][page-break-lines]] (optional)
[[https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile][projectile]] (optional)
[[https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el][all-the-icons]] (optional)
[[https://github.com/rainstormstudio/nerd-icons.el][nerd-icons]] (optional)

Usage

#+BEGIN_SRC shell M-x package-install RET dashboard #+END_SRC

** Open the Dashboard You can set up the dashboard to open automatically at startup using =dashboard-setup-startup-hook=: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (require 'dashboard) (dashboard-setup-startup-hook) #+END_SRC

Or with use-package: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp ;; use-package with package.el: (use-package dashboard :ensure t :config (dashboard-setup-startup-hook)) #+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp ;; use-package with Elpaca: (use-package dashboard :elpaca t :config (add-hook 'elpaca-after-init-hook #'dashboard-insert-startupify-lists) (add-hook 'elpaca-after-init-hook #'dashboard-initialize) (dashboard-setup-startup-hook)) #+END_SRC

Alternatively, if you don't want the dashboard to open by default, you can use the interactive function =dashboard-open= to open it when you do want it.

By default, the dashboard will show three lists, recent files and bookmarks and org-agenda items.

The widget “projects”, which shows a list of recent projects, is not enabled by default since it depends on packages that might not be available. To activate the widget, set the variable =dashboard-projects-backend= to either ='projectile= (projectile, available from melpa) or ='project-el= (project.el, available from GNU elpa), then add an entry like =(projects . 5)= to the variable =dashboard-items=.

The function =dashboard-refresh-buffer= (an alias for =dashboard-open=) can be used to visit and refresh the dashboard.

** Emacs Daemon

In addition to the above, configure =initial-buffer-choice= to show Dashboard in frames created with =emacsclient -c= as follows:

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp (setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda () (get-buffer-create dashboard-buffer-name))) #+END_SRC

Configuration

To update the banner or banner title

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp ;; Set the title (setq dashboard-banner-logo-title "Welcome to Emacs Dashboard") ;; Set the banner (setq dashboard-startup-banner [VALUE]) ;; Value can be: ;; - 'official which displays the official emacs logo. ;; - 'logo which displays an alternative emacs logo. ;; - an integer which displays one of the text banners ;; (see dashboard-banners-directory files). ;; - a string that specifies a path for a custom banner ;; currently supported types are gif/image/text/xbm. ;; - a cons of 2 strings which specifies the path of an image to use ;; and other path of a text file to use if image isn't supported. ;; ("path/to/image/file/image.png" . "path/to/text/file/text.txt"). ;; - a list that can display an random banner, ;; supported values are: string (filepath), 'official, 'logo and integers.

;; Content is not centered by default. To center, set (setq dashboard-center-content t) ;; vertically center content (setq dashboard-vertically-center-content t)

;; To disable shortcut "jump" indicators for each section, set (setq dashboard-show-shortcuts nil) #+END_SRC

To customize which items are displayed, you can use the following snippet #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (setq dashboard-items '((recents . 5) (bookmarks . 5) (projects . 5) (agenda . 5) (registers . 5))) #+END_SRC This will add the recent files, bookmarks, projects, org-agenda and registers widgets to your dashboard each displaying 5 items.

To customize which widgets to display in order (example: Banner, footer message ...): #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq dashboard-startupify-list '(dashboard-insert-banner dashboard-insert-newline dashboard-insert-banner-title dashboard-insert-newline dashboard-insert-navigator dashboard-insert-newline dashboard-insert-init-info dashboard-insert-items dashboard-insert-newline dashboard-insert-footer)) #+end_src See dashboard-startupify-list for all the widgets avalaibles.

To enable cycle navigation between each section: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq dashboard-navigation-cycle t) #+end_src

To customize string format in shortcuts: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq dashboard-heading-shorcut-format " [%s]") #+end_src

To customize item shortcuts: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (setq dashboard-item-shortcuts '((recents . "r") (bookmarks . "m") (projects . "p") (agenda . "a") (registers . "e"))) #+END_SRC

To modify the widget heading name: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (setq dashboard-item-names '(("Recent Files:" . "Recently opened files:") ("Agenda for today:" . "Today's agenda:") ("Agenda for the coming week:" . "Agenda:"))) #+END_SRC

To use ~~all-the-icons~~ package: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq dashboard-icon-type 'all-the-icons) ; use `all-the-icons' package #+END_SRC

To use ~~nerd-icons~~ package: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq dashboard-display-icons-p t) ; display icons on both GUI and terminal (setq dashboard-icon-type 'nerd-icons) ; use `nerd-icons' package #+END_SRC

To add icons to the widget headings and their items: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (setq dashboard-set-heading-icons t) (setq dashboard-set-file-icons t) #+END_SRC

To modify heading icons with another icon from all-the-icons octicons: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (dashboard-modify-heading-icons '((recents . "file-text") (bookmarks . "book"))) #+END_SRC

To modify heading icons with another icon from nerd-icons octicons: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (dashboard-modify-heading-icons '((recents . "nf-oct-file_text") (bookmarks . "nf-oct-book"))) #+END_SRC

To customize the buttons of the navigator like this: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp ;; Format: "(icon title help action face prefix suffix)" (setq dashboard-navigator-buttons `(;; line1 ((,(all-the-icons-octicon "mark-github" :height 1.1 :v-adjust 0.0) "Homepage" "Browse homepage" (lambda (&rest _) (browse-url "homepage"))) ("★" "Star" "Show stars" (lambda (&rest _) (show-stars)) warning) ("?" "" "?/h" #'show-help nil "<" ">")) ;; line 2 ((,(all-the-icons-faicon "linkedin" :height 1.1 :v-adjust 0.0) "Linkedin" "" (lambda (&rest _) (browse-url "homepage"))) ("⚑" nil "Show flags" (lambda (&rest _) (message "flag")) error)))) #+END_SRC

To use it with [[https://github.com/ericdanan/counsel-projectile][counsel-projectile]] or [[https://github.com/bbatsov/persp-projectile][persp-projectile]]

#+begin_src elisp (setq dashboard-projects-switch-function 'counsel-projectile-switch-project-by-name) #+end_src

#+begin_src elisp (setq dashboard-projects-switch-function 'projectile-persp-switch-project) #+end_src

** Org mode’s agenda

To display today’s agenda items on the dashboard, add ~~agenda~~ to ~~dashboard-items~~:

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp (add-to-list 'dashboard-items '(agenda) t) #+END_SRC

To show agenda for the upcoming seven days set the variable ~~dashboard-week-agenda~~ to t. #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (setq dashboard-week-agenda t) #+END_SRC

By default org-agenda entries are filter by time, only showing those task with ~~DEADLINE~~, ~~SCHEDULE-TIME~~ or ~~TIMESTAMP~~ . To show all agenda entries (except ~~DONE~~)

#+begin_src elisp (setq dashboard-filter-agenda-entry 'dashboard-no-filter-agenda) #+end_src

To have an extra filter, ~~MATCH~~ parameter is exposed as ~~dashboard-match-agenda-entry~~ variable, by default is ~~nil~~ #+begin_quote ‘MATCH’ is a tags/property/TODO match. Org iterates only matched headlines. Org iterates over all headlines when MATCH is nil or t. #+end_quote

See [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-Mapping-API.html][Org Manual]] for more information.

Once the agenda appears in the dashboard, ~~org-agenda-files~~ stay open. With ~~(setq dashboard-agenda-release-buffers t)~~ the org files are close. Note that this could slow down the dashboard buffer refreshment.

*** Agenda sort

Agenda is now sorted with ~~dashboard-agenda-sort-strategy~~ following the idea of [[https://orgmode.org/worg/doc.html#org-agenda-sorting-strategy][org-agenda-sorting-strategy]]. Suported strategies are ~~priority-up~~, ~~priority-down~~, ~~time-up~~, ~~time-down~~, ~~todo-state-up~~ and ~~todo-state-down~~

*** Agenda format

To personalize the aspect of each entry, there is ~~dashboard-agenda-prefix-format~~ which initial value is ~~" %i %-12:c %-10s "~~ where %i is the icon category of the item (see [[https://orgmode.org/worg/doc.html#org-agenda-category-icon-alist][org-agenda-category-icon-alist]]), ~~%-12:c~~ gives the category a 12 chars wide field and append a colon to the category. A similar padding but for a 10 wide field is ~~%-10s~~ that is for the scheduling or deadline information. For more information see [[https://orgmode.org/worg/doc.html#org-agenda-prefix-format][org-agenda-prefix-format]].

Deadline or Scheduling time will be formatted using ~~dashboard-agenda-time-string-format~~ and the keywords (TODO, DONE) respect [[https://orgmode.org/worg/doc.html#org-agenda-todo-keyword-format][org-agenda-todo-keyword-format]].

*** Agenda tags

To customize the tags format there is a variable ~~dashboard-agenda-tags-format~~. This variable could be any function that receives the tags directly from ~~org-get-tags~~. By default ~~dashboard-agenda-tags-format~~ is set to ~~identity~~. To hide the tags set the variable to ~~ignore~~: ~~(setq dashboard-agenda-tags-format 'ignore)~~ or to ~~nil~~.

** FAQ

Check out our [[./docs/FAQ.org][Frequently Asked Questions]].

** Faces

It is possible to customize Dashboard's appearance using the following faces:

~~dashboard-banner-logo-title~~ ::
Highlights the banner title.
~~dashboard-text-banner~~ ::
Highlights text banners.
~~dashboard-heading~~ ::
Highlights widget headings.
~~dashboard-items-face~~ ::
Highlights widget items.

Shortcuts

You can use any of the following shortcuts inside Dashboard

|----------------------------+------------------| | Shortcut | Function | |----------------------------+------------------| | Tab Or C-i | Next Item | | Shift-Tab | Previous Item | | Return / Mouse Click / C-m | Open | | r | Recent files | | m | Bookmarks | | p | Projects | | a | Org-Mode Agenda | | e | Registers | | g | Refresh contents | | { | Previous section | | } | Next section | |----------------------------+------------------|