castlemacs
Modern, minimalist Emacs for macOS ⌘ (by freetonik)
crafted-emacs
A sensible base Emacs configuration. (by SystemCrafters)
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337 | 702 | |
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3.6 | 8.8 | |
almost 4 years ago | 6 days ago | |
Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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castlemacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of castlemacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-30.
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I'm switching to emacs from neovim
I started my Emacs journey with Spacemacs but it wasn't good since it's not actually Emacs - you need to learn entirely new stuff on top of Emacs stuff. In the end I gave up and settled with IntelliJ IDEA for Scala development. In five years I returned to Emacs, but started from very simple Castlemacs distribution, learning the meaning of each line, copying to my config only settings I needed, mostly related to configuring Emacs to behave properly on macOS. I don't bother with Doom Emacs, my startup time of 3 seconds doesn't bother me.
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starter config for switching to emacs from neovim
I started from this https://github.com/freetonik/castlemacs, it's not been updated for a few years, but a good starting point if you're on macOS.
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MOMACS: FINALLY A BEGINNER FRIENDLY EMACS
https://github.com/freetonik/castlemacs is the approach where I finally understood and was the missing tutorial for mac users. I've done the emacs embedded tutorial, but got stuck at that weird usage of ESC key as Meta key. That repo laid down the bridgework to me being comfortable with emacs. Still very sparse, but getting there!
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How can I get the novice programmers I coach to adopt Emacs?
Lower the barrier to entry, maybe give them your configuration or some sort of starter-kit, I think castlemacs is good choice as it is quite simple and useable. Tell them to fork it on Github and use it.
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Emacs in fifty keystrokes (and why some of you should just use Vim)
I think IJKL keys are probably better then arrow keys, see how castlemacs does it.
crafted-emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of crafted-emacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.
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Is doom emacs still actively maintained?
Keep an eye on Crafted Emacs which has a v2Beta release branch. It's been evolving. The v2Beta is a rewrite. It aims to provide a minimalist leg up on vanilla Emacs for new Emacs users. It's goal is to take you from first steps to a point where you have learned a great deal and built your configuration. Then you may be comfortable ditching the Crafted Emacs boilerplate configuration entirely. Think of it as a starter kit. Follow SystemCrafters on YouTube (live stream mostly) & Matrix (they are leaving Discord). Despite the live stream being lengthy, there is much to be learned as you bear witness to David figuring things out. Over time, you pickup on those techniques such as looking up a variable state, reviewing functions, evaluating snippets of Elisp in real time, etc. Also recommend, Mastering Emacs as a fantastic ebook with free updates. Once 29.1 ships, no doubt, there will be a free update to the ebook.
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Returning emacs user - what packages are common now?
I'd recommend you have a look at crafted-emacs. It's an example of how far Emacs can actually go without third-party packages. Then you can add minimal packages (completion and specific tool integrations) to further enhance the experience.
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Emacs bankruptcy
For me it's quite stable except some issues I had with vertico. Anyways, I first started to rewrite my doom config into plain vanilla emacs (with org mode literate configs), and then I discovered crafted which allowed me to remove some code with commonly set sane defaults, e.g. stuff from https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs/blob/master/modules/crafted-defaults.el.
- doom emacs
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Kudos to Emacs developers
I have been surprised at how many people have so ardently defended only using built-ins and raw package.el and their own janky ensure methods when use-package was available and did it all better. And, it even lets you configure Emacs itself (not just packages), as well as seamlessly letting you try different package management tools like straight.el. Getting it into Emacs itself hopefully makes this a more prevalent way of showing users how to craft their own config.
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Switched to VSCode... I miss Atom :(
If you need a staring point for configuring there's some nice light ones like emacs-bedrock and crafted-emacs, and also some fully pre-configured Emacs distributions that you can choose from (though those look harder to configure to one's personal needs to me, but I haven't tried them so wouldn't know).
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Boilerplate config
I'll second https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs
- What is the "best" GNU Emacs set up one could have just using built-in features?
- Chosing an Emacs Distro on M1 OS X
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Emacs 29 is nigh What can we expect?
And if you find yourself between the two extremes, perhaps https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing castlemacs and crafted-emacs you can also consider the following projects:
no-littering - Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean
chemacs2 - Emacs version switcher, improved
momacs - The Missing Emacs starter-kit!
.emacs.d - My emacs configuration
kickstart.el
jupyter - An interface to communicate with Jupyter kernels.
doomemacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
emacs-ipython-notebook - Jupyter notebook client in Emacs
dotemacs
emacs - Yet another Emacs configuration.
emacs.onboard - Single-file Emacs starter kit without 3rd-party packages. Almost vanilla Emacs, with just the right amount of sweetness to flatten the learning curve.
castlemacs vs no-littering
crafted-emacs vs chemacs2
castlemacs vs momacs
crafted-emacs vs .emacs.d
castlemacs vs kickstart.el
crafted-emacs vs no-littering
castlemacs vs jupyter
crafted-emacs vs doomemacs
castlemacs vs emacs-ipython-notebook
crafted-emacs vs dotemacs
castlemacs vs emacs
crafted-emacs vs emacs.onboard