castlemacs
Modern, minimalist Emacs for macOS ⌘ (by freetonik)
emacs.d
An Emacs configuration bundle with batteries included (by purcell)
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| castlemacs | emacs.d | |
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| 5 | 19 | |
| 337 | 6,790 | |
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| 3.6 | 8.9 | |
| almost 4 years ago | 2 months ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
| MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
emacs.d
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs.d.
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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Eglot + pyright can not get completion on django.db.models
My Emacs journey is from purcell/emacs.d, and then simplified it with use-package and Borg, and only keep the packages I need. Purcell's config is a very nice starter kit.
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Need help w/ buffer management when opening new buffers.
I prefer these functions from purcell's config because the last buffer is the buffer I want 80% of the time. https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/init-windows.el
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Why the fuck is there some error with emacs config every single time?
Emacs demands you to learn it over a lifetime. That’s how it is, unless you give up to doom or purcell config or some other config maintained by a very knowledgeable emacs hacker.
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I left Emacs and Org-Mode 8 months ago and switched to more modern note-taking tools. But yesterday I came back to it, and now I feel at home.
Eight months ago, I saw this tweet from Steve Purcell, the maintainer of the famous purcell's emacs.d config. Seeing that he was left org-mode for a new tool, discouraged me from using Emacs and building my own config. It also encouraged me to try Logseq, which is one of the most popular PKM tools alongside Obsidian.
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Let's build a comprehensive list of design considerations when making an Emacs configuration.
Steve Purcell's emacs.d satisfies this checklist. It's not as feature packed as Doom, so beginners should have a look at. Another is Kaushal Modi's .emacs.d.
- purcell's Emacs Config: An Emacs configuration bundle with batteries include
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Does eglot work with third party packages?
If you want to use flycheck instead, may be you can have look the flymake-flycheck , and the author's Emacs configuration: https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/init-flymake.el
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Teaching Emacs to open folders/projects
Steve Purcell
- I'm switching to emacs from neovim
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Best way (and examples) to make a tidy config with multiple files?
Have a look at Purcell’s (extremely popular) config: https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d
What are some alternatives?
When comparing castlemacs and emacs.d you can also consider the following projects:
no-littering - Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean
prelude - Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.
crafted-emacs - A sensible base Emacs configuration.
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
momacs - The Missing Emacs starter-kit!
.doom.d - Private DOOM Emacs config highly focused around orgmode and GTD methodology, along with language support for Python and Elisp.
kickstart.el
crux - A Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs
jupyter - An interface to communicate with Jupyter kernels.
aggressive-indent-mode - Emacs minor mode that keeps your code always indented. More reliable than electric-indent-mode.
emacs-ipython-notebook - Jupyter notebook client in Emacs
doom.d