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+# Emacs Configuration
+
+Personal Emacs configuration focused on simplicity and modern tooling while respecting default Emacs keybindings.
+
+## Philosophy
+
+- Clean and minimal configuration
+- Prefer built-in Emacs functionality when possible
+- Use modern, actively maintained packages
+- Respect default Emacs keybindings
+- Single `init.el` file for simplicity
+
+## Structure
+
+```
+~/.emacs.d/
+├── init.el           # Main configuration file
+├── elisp/            # Custom configuration modules
+│   ├── c-init.el     # C/C++ configuration
+│   └── ansible-init.el # Ansible/YAML configuration
+└── README.md         # This file
+```
+
+## Key Packages
+
+### Completion Framework
+- **vertico** - Vertical completion UI
+- **orderless** - Flexible completion style (space-separated patterns)
+- **consult** - Enhanced commands (buffer switching, search, etc.)
+- **marginalia** - Helpful annotations in completion candidates
+
+### Development
+- **company** - Auto-completion
+- **flycheck** - Syntax checking
+- **treesit-auto** - Tree-sitter modes with automatic grammar installation
+- **magit** - Git interface
+- **forge** - GitHub/GitLab integration for magit
+- **magit-todos** - Show TODO/FIXME comments in magit status
+
+### Editing
+- **paredit** - Structured editing for Lisp
+- **expand-region** - Smart region expansion
+- **move-text** - Move lines/regions up and down
+- **visual-regexp** - Visual feedback for regexp replace
+- **yasnippet** - Snippet expansion
+- **emmet-mode** - HTML/CSS abbreviation expansion
+- **rainbow-delimiters** - Colorize nested delimiters
+
+### Modes
+- **markdown-mode** - Markdown editing
+- **terraform-mode** - Terraform configuration files
+- **yaml-mode** - YAML files
+- **json-mode** - JSON files
+- **hgignore-mode** - Mercurial ignore files
+
+### Utilities
+- **ibuffer-project** - Group buffers by project
+- **exec-path-from-shell** - Import shell environment variables
+- **rg** - ripgrep integration
+
+## Key Bindings
+
+### Custom Bindings
+- `C-c c` - Compile
+- `C-c r` - Recompile
+- `C-c a` - Align regexp
+- `C-c g` - Consult ripgrep (search with preview)
+- `C-c s` - Launch eshell
+- `C-x g` - Magit status
+- `C-x C-b` - ibuffer (better buffer list)
+- `C-=` - Expand region
+- `M-p` / `M-n` - Move text up/down
+- `M-%` - Visual regexp replace
+- `C-M-%` - Visual regexp query replace
+
+### Enhanced Default Bindings
+- `M-x` - Command execution (enhanced with vertico)
+- `C-x b` - Switch buffer (enhanced with consult)
+- `M-y` - Yank from kill ring (enhanced with consult)
+- `M-/` - Company completion
+
+## Installation
+
+1. Clone this repository:
+   ```bash
+   git clone [email protected]:lukehoersten/emacs.d.git ~/.emacs.d
+   ```
+
+2. Launch Emacs - packages will auto-install on first run
+
+3. For tree-sitter modes, grammars install automatically when first opening a file
+
+## Tree-sitter Support
+
+Tree-sitter provides faster, more accurate syntax highlighting and parsing. Enabled automatically for:
+- JavaScript/TypeScript
+- JSON
+- Python
+- And many more (via `treesit-auto`)
+
+Grammars install automatically on first use.
+
+## Customizations
+
+Emacs customizations are redirected to `custom.el` (gitignored) to keep `init.el` clean.
+The configuration uses `package-require` for explicit package management.
+
+## Updating Packages
+
+```elisp
+M-x package-refresh-contents
+M-x package-update-all
+```
+
+## Notes
+
+- Theme: Solarized Light (GUI only)
+- Font: Inconsolata-12 (GUI only)
+- Shell: eshell (launched automatically on startup)
+- Whitespace cleanup on save enabled globally