crafted-emacs
A sensible base Emacs configuration. (by SystemCrafters)
lambda-emacs
Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions. (by Lambda-Emacs)
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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
lambda-emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of lambda-emacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
- First Time Emacs User on macOS - Need Guidance!
- Chosing an Emacs Distro on M1 OS X
- Advice emacs as a word processor
- lambda-emacs: Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions.
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emacs distributions without evil?
You might look at crafted emacs and my own lambda-emacs (not sure if either of these are properly classified as "distros" though). Both default to vanilla Emacs bindings. The repo for lambda-emacs also has a bunch of links to some other great vanilla configs like Prelude, etc.
- Builtin eshell completion at po
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About to declare Emacs bankruptcy. Any advice for cool or new packages, defaults, or ideas I should use before I start building my init.el? Also interested in guides to using evil.
I am a professor in the humanities (philosophy) and I maintain a framework for Emacs (I don’t know if it rises to the level of “distro”) that is conducive to humanities work, including writing, notes, citations, a good ui, and basic programming. I’m happy to say more if you have any questions. https://github.com/Lambda-Emacs/lambda-emacs
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A minimal customization that I can borrow
See my lambda-emacs and lambda-themes. They are meant for writing and readability.
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emacs-groundup
7 - Meow: Meow is great. I switched from evil a few months ago and am pretty happy with it. I also dropped general.el for bind-key.el, which is included with use-package (which I see you are using anyway). You can look at my setup of meow here and a more generic setup of keybindings here. I haven't had any trouble with using this instead of general.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing crafted-emacs and lambda-emacs you can also consider the following projects:
.emacs.d - My emacs configuration
svg-tag-mode - A minor mode for Emacs that replace keywords with nice SVG labels
chemacs2 - Emacs version switcher, improved
mindre-theme - Minimal and light theme for Emacs
no-littering - Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean
gcmh - The Garbage Collector Magic Hack
doomemacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
dirvish - A polished Dired with batteries included.
dotemacs
corfu - :desert_island: corfu.el - COmpletion in Region FUnction
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.
SLANOMACS - My (Illiterate) Literate Doom Emacs Config
crafted-emacs vs .emacs.d
lambda-emacs vs svg-tag-mode
crafted-emacs vs chemacs2
lambda-emacs vs mindre-theme
crafted-emacs vs no-littering
lambda-emacs vs gcmh
crafted-emacs vs doomemacs
lambda-emacs vs dirvish
crafted-emacs vs dotemacs
lambda-emacs vs corfu
crafted-emacs vs emacs.onboard
lambda-emacs vs SLANOMACS