diff --git a/users/tacocat/emacs/default.el b/users/tacocat/emacs/default.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2aa01ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/tacocat/emacs/default.el
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+(("apheleia" . "8f512dba3ee2eabae0dbfd8289b89d54c132cb87")
+ ("auctex" . "53b82804c9dd9dbea306876f3be84ebacbeb7e74")
+ ("blackout" . "7707211370f03f03a2f74df15f42ac24a1e99300")
+ ("company-mode" . "f1877a370ca76d5cd6614c527635b2d6983188af")
+ ("compat" . "2748abd7c7135fe5d873020061b2d58a66b8d505")
+ ("ctrlf" . "9b4cf6c79a961f2bfbb949805aa300fcf1eb40a6")
+ ("dash.el" . "b6eef1a24dfbe57ba72d5eb1613fc05ff92e8e92")
+ ("diff-hl" . "09a0f8fcc7e6ce3f49dca64cdfab898d6762f2a4")
+ ("el-get" . "a5ba5852648a90ee0cde9fb5d72e69497d260eec")
+ ("emacs-dashboard" . "263f9f1760b8303955c03ccc3c509692075af019")
+ ("emacs-which-key" . "1ab1d0cc88843c9a614ed3226c5a1070e32e4823")
+ ("emacsmirror-mirror" . "95617befb9ac26869e2ab2101e4a76fa5d40fdb7")
+ ("f.el" . "d2019d4f9625bcc44349c69fe46d6645fd9ff4ff")
+ ("gnu-elpa-mirror" . "a4f2d4b0e1d3dd8bde2d768458a402d63ad06722")
+ ("ht.el" . "c4c1be487d6ecb353d07881526db05d7fc90ea87")
+ ("hydra" . "9e9e00cb240ea1903ffd36a54956b3902c379d29")
+ ("lsp-mode" . "c9db552dcef80c481ecca6bf53c86a12f2a9cd55")
+ ("lsp-pyright" . "c745228f39fdb35372b29b909f25fa6c98dc7c88")
+ ("magit" . "49ba535f526266b69fcaf7442acfa59ad8473caf")
+ ("markdown-mode" . "193b61605f44c85d261b8bd82e0a213fd8f1ff32")
+ ("melpa" . "382cb915901971ff5e9b32156cbeb5639c3bf20f")
+ ("monokai-emacs" . "df6c23d14e52f9d7f5bc2265facfbedfb07a444e")
+ ("nerd-icons-dired" . "c1c73488630cc1d19ce1677359f614122ae4c1b9")
+ ("nerd-icons.el" . "fb395120e9de33b276d16caaccaefd98d4340b92")
+ ("nix-mode" . "719feb7868fb567ecfe5578f6119892c771ac5e5")
+ ("nongnu-elpa" . "e5adab3409abfa69ecbaeb07bb88d48f78e03d3f")
+ ("org" . "3303a54d74805cdd2b6eda37285f259949f7ba2e")
+ ("org-contrib" . "c6aef31ccfc7c4418c3b51e98f7c3bd8e255f5e6")
+ ("prescient.el" . "c0eca3328313f1e93d24e686307516f43a484ba2")
+ ("projectile" . "271007c6611fcb08ddd326d7de9727c2ad5ef265")
+ ("s.el" . "08661efb075d1c6b4fa812184c1e5e90c08795a9")
+ ("seq" . "4355cde01767911660f761cf874edb412d06bd7a")
+ ("spinner" . "34905eae12a236753fa88abc831eff1e41e8576e")
+ ("straight.el" . "b3760f5829dba37e855add7323304561eb57a3d4")
+ ("transient" . "2dd0102ec3df901d421fc338e5c768467cc54ecf")
+ ("use-package" . "0ad5d9d5d8a61517a207ab04bf69e71c081149eb")
+ ("vertico" . "e077e957672ae8be35fbd95a7724fbdaa288236c")
+ ("with-editor" . "cfcbc2731e402b9169c0dc03e89b5b57aa988502"))
+:gamma
diff --git a/users/tacocat/emacs/early-init.el b/users/tacocat/emacs/early-init.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..512068a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/tacocat/emacs/early-init.el
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
diff --git a/users/tacocat/emacs/init.el b/users/tacocat/emacs/init.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55a5e3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/tacocat/emacs/init.el
@@ -0,0 +1,437 @@
+;; Initialize straight package manager
+(defvar bootstrap-version)
+(let ((bootstrap-file
+       (expand-file-name
+        "straight/repos/straight.el/bootstrap.el"
+        (or (bound-and-true-p straight-base-dir)
+            user-emacs-directory)))
+      (bootstrap-version 7))
+  (unless (file-exists-p bootstrap-file)
+    (with-current-buffer
+        (url-retrieve-synchronously
+         "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radian-software/straight.el/develop/install.el"
+         'silent 'inhibit-cookies)
+      (goto-char (point-max))
+      (eval-print-last-sexp)))
+  (load bootstrap-file nil 'nomessage))
+
+(straight-use-package 'use-package)
+(setq straight-use-package-by-default t)
+
+;; Disable frequency of GC. This helps performance both during init
+;; and after init. Value is in bytes so this is 100MB, as suggested in
+;; <https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode#performance>.
+(setq gc-cons-threshold (* 100 1024 1024))
+
+;; If you have something on the system clipboard, and then kill
+;; something in Emacs, then by default whatever you had on the system
+;; clipboard is gone and there is no way to get it back. Setting the
+;; following option makes it so that when you kill something in Emacs,
+;; whatever was previously on the system clipboard is pushed into the
+;; kill ring. This way, you can paste it with `yank-pop'.
+(setq save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t)
+
+(straight-register-package 'org)
+(straight-register-package 'org-contrib)
+
+(use-package monokai-theme
+  :config
+  (load-theme 'monokai t))
+
+(use-package blackout
+  :demand t)
+
+(use-package nerd-icons)
+
+(use-package projectile
+  :defer 1
+  :bind-keymap* (("C-c p" . projectile-command-map))
+  :config
+  ;; Use Vertico (via `completing-read') for Projectile instead of
+  ;; IDO.
+  (setq projectile-completion-system 'default)
+
+  ;; When switching projects, give the option to choose what to do.
+  ;; This is a way better interface than having to remember ahead of
+  ;; time to use a prefix argument on `projectile-switch-project'
+  ;; (because, and please be honest here, when was the last time you
+  ;; actually remembered to do that?).
+  (setq projectile-switch-project-action 'projectile-commander)
+
+  (def-projectile-commander-method ?\C-m
+                                   "Find file in project."
+                                   (call-interactively #'find-file))
+
+  (projectile-mode +1)
+  :blackout t)
+
+(use-package dashboard
+  :config
+  (setq dashboard-center-content t
+        dashboard-display-icons-p t
+        dashboard-icon-type 'nerd-icons
+        dashboard-set-file-icons t
+        dashboard-projects-backend 'projectile)
+  (setq dashboard-items '((recents   . 5)
+                          (bookmarks . 5)
+                          (projects  . 5)
+                          (agenda    . 5)
+                          (registers . 5)))
+  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook))
+
+(use-package ctrlf
+  :init
+  (ctrlf-mode +1))
+
+(use-package which-key
+  :demand t
+  :config
+  (which-key-mode +1)
+  :blackout t)
+
+(use-package nerd-icons-dired
+  :hook
+  (dired-mode . nerd-icons-dired-mode))
+
+(use-package nix-mode
+  :mode "\\.nix\\'")
+
+(use-package magit
+  :commands (magit-status magit-get-current-branch))
+
+(use-package diff-hl)
+(global-diff-hl-mode)
+(diff-hl-flydiff-mode)
+
+(use-package markdown-mode
+  :mode ("README\\.md\\'" . gfm-mode)
+  :init (setq markdown-command "multimarkdown"))
+
+
+;; using an older version of auctex since newer versions changed how config
+;; works and I can't figure it out
+(use-package tex-site
+  :straight auctex)
+
+(use-package tex
+  :straight nil
+  :config
+  (setq TeX-auto-save t)
+  (setq TeX-parse-self t)
+  (setq TeX-save-query nil)
+  (setq TeX-PDF-mode t)
+  (setq TeX-source-correlate-mode t)
+  (setq TeX-source-correlate-start-server t)
+  (add-to-list 'TeX-expand-list'("%sn" (lambda () server-name)))
+  (add-to-list 'TeX-view-program-list
+               '("Zathura"
+                 ("zathura %o"
+                  (mode-io-correlate " --synctex-forward %n:0:\"%b\" -x \"emacsclient --socket-name=%sn +%{line} %{input}\""))
+                 "zathura"))
+  (setcar (cdr (assoc 'output-pdf TeX-view-program-selection)) "Zathura"))
+
+(use-package latex
+  :straight nil
+  :mode
+  ("\\.tex\\'" . latex-mode)
+  :hook
+  (LaTeX-mode . LaTeX-math-mode)
+  (LaTeX-mode . TeX-source-correlate-mode))
+
+(use-package font-latex
+  :straight nil
+  :init
+  (setq font-latex-fontify-script nil)
+  (setq font-latex-fontify-sectioning 'color))
+
+(use-package org
+  :bind*
+  ("C-c l" . #'org-store-link)
+  ("C-c a" . #'org-agenda)
+  ("C-c c" . #'org-capture))
+
+(use-package vertico
+  :demand t
+  :config
+  (vertico-mode +1)
+  ;; Ignore case... otherwise the behavior is really weird and
+  ;; confusing.
+  (setq read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t
+        read-buffer-completion-ignore-case t
+        completion-ignore-case t)
+  ;; Don't re-sort buffer candidates. The recency order is correct.
+  (vertico-multiform-mode +1)
+  (setq vertico-multiform-categories
+        '((buffer (vertico-sort-function . copy-sequence)))))
+
+(use-package prescient
+  :config
+  ;; Remember usage statistics across Emacs sessions.
+  (prescient-persist-mode +1)
+
+  ;; The default settings seem a little forgetful to me. Let's try
+  ;; this out.
+  (setq prescient-history-length 1000)
+
+  ;; Common sense.
+  (setq prescient-sort-full-matches-first t))
+
+(use-package vertico-prescient
+  :demand t
+  :after vertico
+  :config
+  (vertico-prescient-mode +1))
+
+(use-package apheleia
+  :init
+  (apheleia-global-mode +1))
+
+(use-package company
+  :defer 0.5
+  :bind (:filter company-mode
+
+                 ;; Remap the standard Emacs keybindings for invoking
+                 ;; completion to instead use Company. You might think this
+                 ;; could be put in the `:bind*' declaration below, but it
+                 ;; seems that `bind-key*' does not work with remappings.
+                 ([remap completion-at-point] . #'company-manual-begin)
+                 ([remap complete-symbol] . #'company-manual-begin)
+
+                 ;; The following are keybindings that take effect whenever
+                 ;; the completions menu is visible, even if the user has not
+                 ;; explicitly interacted with Company.
+
+                 :map company-active-map
+
+                 ;; Make TAB always complete the current selection, instead of
+                 ;; only completing a common prefix.
+                 ("<tab>" . #'company-complete-selection)
+                 ("TAB" . #'company-complete-selection)
+
+                 ;; When was the last time you used the C-s binding for
+                 ;; searching candidates? It conflicts with buffer search,
+                 ;; anyway. Same for the scroll commands.
+                 ("C-s" . nil)
+                 ([remap scroll-down-command] . nil)
+                 ([remap scroll-up-command] . nil)
+
+                 ;; The following are keybindings that only take effect if the
+                 ;; user has explicitly interacted with Company. Note that
+                 ;; `:map' from above is "sticky", and applies also below: see
+                 ;; https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/334#issuecomment-349473819.
+
+                 :filter (company-explicit-action-p)
+
+                 ;; Make RET trigger a completion if and only if the user has
+                 ;; explicitly interacted with Company, instead of always
+                 ;; doing so.
+                 ("<return>" . #'company-complete-selection)
+                 ("RET" . #'company-complete-selection)
+
+                 ;; We then make <up> and <down> abort the completions menu
+                 ;; unless the user has interacted explicitly. Note that we
+                 ;; use `company-select-previous' instead of
+                 ;; `company-select-previous-or-abort'. I think the former
+                 ;; makes more sense since the general idea of this `company'
+                 ;; configuration is to decide whether or not to steal
+                 ;; keypresses based on whether the user has explicitly
+                 ;; interacted with `company', not based on the number of
+                 ;; candidates.
+                 ;;
+                 ;; Note that M-p and M-n work regardless of whether explicit
+                 ;; interaction has happened yet, and note also that M-TAB
+                 ;; when the completions menu is open counts as an
+                 ;; interaction.
+                 ("<up>" . #'company-select-previous)
+                 ("<down>" . #'company-select-next))
+
+  :bind* (:filter company-mode
+
+                  ;; The default keybinding for `completion-at-point' and
+                  ;; `complete-symbol' is M-TAB or equivalently C-M-i. We
+                  ;; already remapped those bindings to `company-manual-begin'
+                  ;; above. Here we make sure that they definitely invoke
+                  ;; `company-manual-begin' even if a minor mode binds M-TAB
+                  ;; directly.
+                  ("M-TAB" . #'company-manual-begin))
+
+  :config
+
+  ;; Make completions display twice as soon.
+  (setq company-idle-delay 0.15)
+
+  ;; Make completions display when you have only typed one character,
+  ;; instead of three.
+  (setq company-minimum-prefix-length 1)
+
+  ;; Always display the entire suggestion list onscreen, placing it
+  ;; above the cursor if necessary.
+  (setq company-tooltip-minimum company-tooltip-limit)
+
+  ;; Always display suggestions in the tooltip, even if there is only
+  ;; one. Also, don't display metadata in the echo area. (This
+  ;; conflicts with ElDoc.)
+  (setq company-frontends '(company-pseudo-tooltip-frontend))
+
+  ;; Show quick-reference numbers in the tooltip. (Select a completion
+  ;; with M-1 through M-0.)
+  (setq company-show-quick-access t)
+
+  ;; Prevent non-matching input (which will dismiss the completions
+  ;; menu), but only if the user interacts explicitly with Company.
+  (setq company-require-match #'company-explicit-action-p)
+
+  ;; Only search the current buffer to get suggestions for
+  ;; `company-dabbrev' (a backend that creates suggestions from text
+  ;; found in your buffers). This prevents Company from causing lag
+  ;; once you have a lot of buffers open.
+  (setq company-dabbrev-other-buffers nil)
+
+  ;; Make the `company-dabbrev' backend fully case-sensitive, to
+  ;; improve the UX when working with domain-specific words that have
+  ;; particular casing.
+  (setq company-dabbrev-ignore-case nil)
+  (setq company-dabbrev-downcase nil)
+
+  ;; When candidates in the autocompletion tooltip have additional
+  ;; metadata, like a type signature, align that information to the
+  ;; right-hand side. This usually makes it look neater.
+  (setq company-tooltip-align-annotations t)
+
+  (global-company-mode +1)
+
+  :blackout t)
+
+(use-package company-prescient
+  :demand t
+  :after company
+  :config
+  (company-prescient-mode +1))
+
+
+(use-package lsp-mode
+  :init
+  ;; set prefix for lsp-command-keymap (few alternatives - "C-l", "C-c l")
+  (setq lsp-keymap-prefix "C-m")
+  :hook
+  (lsp-mode . lsp-enable-which-key-integration)
+  :commands lsp
+  :config
+  ;; As per <https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode#performance>.
+  (setq read-process-output-max (* 1024 1024))
+
+  ;; Disable LSP reformatting your code as you type. We use Apheleia
+  ;; for that instead.
+  (setq lsp-enable-on-type-formatting nil))
+
+(use-package lsp-pyright
+  :hook (python-mode . (lambda ()
+                         (require 'lsp-pyright)
+                         (lsp))))  ; or lsp-deferred
+
+(use-package emacs
+  :straight nil
+  :init
+  ;; Add prompt indicator to `completing-read-multiple'.
+  ;; We display [CRM<separator>], e.g., [CRM,] if the separator is a comma.
+  (defun crm-indicator (args)
+    (cons (format "[CRM%s] %s"
+                  (replace-regexp-in-string
+                   "\\`\\[.*?]\\*\\|\\[.*?]\\*\\'" ""
+                   crm-separator)
+                  (car args))
+          (cdr args)))
+  (advice-add #'completing-read-multiple :filter-args #'crm-indicator)
+
+  ;; Do not allow the cursor in the minibuffer prompt
+  (setq minibuffer-prompt-properties
+        '(read-only t cursor-intangible t face minibuffer-prompt))
+  (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook #'cursor-intangible-mode)
+
+  ;; Support opening new minibuffers from inside existing minibuffers.
+  (setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)
+
+  ;; Emacs 28 and newer: Hide commands in M-x which do not work in the current
+  ;; mode.  Vertico commands are hidden in normal buffers. This setting is
+  ;; useful beyond Vertico.
+  (setq read-extended-command-predicate #'command-completion-default-include-p))
+
+
+(setq-default fill-column 80)
+(setq ring-bell-function 'ignore)
+
+(setq mode-line-position (list "(%l,%c)"))
+
+;; https://dougie.io/emacs/indentation/#tldr-the-full-configuration
+                                        ; START TABS CONFIG
+;; Create a variable for our preferred tab width
+(setq custom-tab-width 2)
+
+;; Two callable functions for enabling/disabling tabs in Emacs
+(defun disable-tabs () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil))
+(defun enable-tabs  ()
+  (local-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'tab-to-tab-stop)
+  (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
+  (setq-default tab-width custom-tab-width))
+
+;; Hooks to Enable Tabs
+(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'enable-tabs)
+;; Hooks to Disable Tabs
+(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook 'disable-tabs)
+(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'disable-tabs)
+
+;; Language-Specific Tweaks
+(setq-default python-indent-offset custom-tab-width) ;; Python
+(setq-default js-indent-level custom-tab-width)      ;; Javascript
+
+;; Making electric-indent behave sanely
+(setq-default electric-indent-inhibit t)
+
+;; Make the backspace properly erase the tab instead of
+;; removing 1 space at a time.
+(setq backward-delete-char-untabify-method 'hungry)
+
+;; WARNING: This will change your life
+;; (OPTIONAL) Visualize tabs as a pipe character - "|"
+;; This will also show trailing characters as they are useful to spot.
+(setq whitespace-style '(face tabs tab-mark trailing))
+(custom-set-faces
+ '(whitespace-tab ((t (:foreground "#636363")))))
+(setq whitespace-display-mappings
+      '((tab-mark 9 [124 9] [92 9]))) ; 124 is the ascii ID for '\|'
+(global-whitespace-mode) ; Enable whitespace mode everywhere
+                                        ; END TABS CONFIG
+
+(setq display-line-numbers-type 'relative)
+(blink-cursor-mode 0)
+(global-hl-line-mode 1)
+
+(setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t)
+(setq scroll-conservatively 1)
+(setq scroll-margin 5)
+
+(defun gcm-scroll-down ()
+  (interactive)
+  (scroll-up 1))
+
+(defun gcm-scroll-up ()
+  (interactive)
+  (scroll-down 1))
+
+(global-set-key [(control down)] 'gcm-scroll-down)
+(global-set-key [(control up)]   'gcm-scroll-up)
+
+;; Turn off some unneeded UI elements
+(menu-bar-mode -1)
+(tool-bar-mode -1)
+(scroll-bar-mode -1)
+
+(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'auto-fill-mode)
+(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode)
+(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
+(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'display-line-numbers-mode)
+(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'display-line-numbers-mode)
+
+(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
+             '(font . "Mononoki-14"))
+
diff --git a/users/tacocat/home.nix b/users/tacocat/home.nix
index da3e554..8970c73 100644
--- a/users/tacocat/home.nix
+++ b/users/tacocat/home.nix
@@ -130,9 +130,13 @@
     };
   };
 
-  xdg.configFile."./" = {
-    source = ./.config;
-    recursive = true;
-  };
+  # xdg.configFile."./" = {
+  #   source = ./.config;
+  #   recursive = true;
+  # };
+
+	xdg.configFile."emacs/init.el".source = ./emacs/init.el;
+	xdg.configFile."emacs/early-init.el".source = ./emacs/early-init.el;
+	xdg.configFile."emacs/straight/versions/default.el".source = ./emacs/default.el;
 
 }