Monkeytype on GNU Emacs / N Λ N O

This is a fork of GNU Emacs / N Λ N O meant for Monkeytype

To run it clone this repository and from inside run the following in your terminal:

$ emacs -q -l monkeytype.el

To start monkeytyping execute M-x monkeytype-fortune or any of the other commands listed in the Monkeytype's repository.

The monkeytype.el file has a basic Emacs Monkeytype configuration and at the end it also loads a monkeytype.local.el file (if it exists) for custom configuration (keybindings, functions, etc.**.

Here's an example of further configuration meant for the monkeytype.local.el file:

;; Reset some of Emacs N Λ N O defauls

(setq ns-use-native-fullscreen t
      mac-option-key-is-meta nil
      mac-command-key-is-meta nil
      mac-command-modifier 'control
      mac-option-modifier 'meta
      mac-use-title-bar nil
      ;; http://irreal.org/blog/?p=1450
      mac-function-modifier 'hyper)

(setq default-frame-alist
      (append (list
	       '(font . "Roboto Mono:style=Light:size=20")
	       ;; '(font . "Roboto Mono Emacs Regular:size=14")
	       '(min-height . 1)  '(height     . 45)
	       '(min-width  . 1) '(width      . 81)
               '(vertical-scroll-bars . nil)
               '(internal-border-width . 24)
               '(left-fringe    . 0)
               '(right-fringe   . 0)
               '(tool-bar-lines . 0)
               '(menu-bar-lines . 0))))

;; Custom monkeytype functions
;;;###autoload
(defun monkeytype-pangrams ()
  "Monkeytype most common pangrams randomised."
  (interactive)
  (monkeytype--init
   (mapconcat
    #'identity
    (monkeytype--utils-nshuffle
     '(
       "Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz"
       "Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf"
       "How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!"
       "The five boxing wizards jump quickly"
       "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"
       "Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex"
       "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz"
       "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs"
       "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"))
    "\n")))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-c j") #'monkeytype-pangrams)

(monkeytype-pangrams)

(provide 'monkeytype.local)

Screencast Demo

Alternative Running Methods

The nano-monkeytype.bash script allows to run nano-monkeytype from any directory if the NANO_MONKEYTYPE_DIR environment variable exists and points to the repository's directory, and the scrip has been added to somewhere in your $PATH (you can link it with: ln -s /path/to/nano-monkeytype.bash /your/bin/dir/nano-monkeytype)

1) Adding NANO_MONKEYTYPE_DIR environment variable

Set the NANO_MONKEYTYPE_DIR environment variable in your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export NANO_MONKEYTYPE_DIR="/path/to/repo"

And just run the script nano-monkeytype.bash.

2 One liner

It is also possible to run the script like this:

exec env NANO_MONKEYTYPE_DIR="/path/to/repo" monkeytype.bash

And maybe add an alias to it.

3 From Emacs

Add the following to your .emacs:

(defun my/run-nano-monketype ()
  (interactive)
  (setenv "NANO_MONKEYTYPE_DIR" "/path/to/repo")
  (shell-command-to-string "monkeytype -dark"))

(global-set-key (kbd "My-Key-binding") #'my/run-nano-monkeytype)

For more specifics about this N Λ N O Emacs configuration*, the following is an excerpt of the project's README but for more info here you can find the project's original repository:

https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs

GNU Emacs / N Λ N O is a set of configuration files for GNU Emacs such as to provide a nice and consistent look and feel as shown below. It is based on design principles I described in the article "On the design of text Editors" that is available on arXiv. The light theme is based on Material colors and the dark theme is based on Nord colors.

The philosophy of nano emacs is to stick as much as possible to vanilla emacs without introducing too much dependencies (or none if possible) and to keep it modular enough. The idea is for users to copy the part they are interested in such as to include them in their own configuration.

Requirements

You need a recent version of GNU Emacs and to have the Roboto Mono and Fira Code fonts installed on your system. There are no other dependencies.