     (blink-cursor-mode 0)            ;; the blinking cursor is pretty annoying, so disable it.
     (tool-bar-mode 0)                ;; disable toolbar
     (global-prettify-symbols-mode t) ;; render "lambda" as λ
-    (transient-mark-mode 0)          ;; don't show region selection
     :custom
     (show-trailing-whitespace t)     ;; show trailing whitespace in all modes
     (indent-tabs-mode nil)           ;; spaces instead of tabs

  ;; automatically inserts the corresponding closing parenthesis, and vice versa.
  (use-package elec-pair
    :config
    (electric-pair-mode))
  t)



;; GLOBALS
(defvar init-dir (file-name-directory load-file-name))
(defvar var-dir (concat init-dir "var/"))


(defun main()
  (message "Main started")
