crafted-emacs VS no-littering

Compare crafted-emacs vs no-littering and see what are their differences.

crafted-emacs

A sensible base Emacs configuration. (by SystemCrafters)

no-littering

Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean (by emacscollective)
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crafted-emacs no-littering
31 11
699 597
3.9% 1.7%
9.0 7.5
18 days ago 8 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.
  • Is doom emacs still actively maintained?
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Jun 2023
    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.
  • Returning emacs user - what packages are common now?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 9 May 2023
    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.
  • Emacs bankruptcy
    17 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
    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.
    17 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
  • Kudos to Emacs developers
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Jan 2023
    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.
  • Switched to VSCode... I miss Atom :(
    7 projects | /r/Atom | 11 Jan 2023
    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).
  • Boilerplate config
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Jan 2023
    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?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 25 Dec 2022
    you may like system craft, he is working in a emacs config with only built-in packages
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 25 Dec 2022
  • Chosing an Emacs Distro on M1 OS X
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Dec 2022

no-littering

Posts with mentions or reviews of no-littering. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crafted-emacs and no-littering you can also consider the following projects:

.emacs.d - My emacs configuration

chemacs2 - Emacs version switcher, improved

doomemacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

dotemacs

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.

every-emacs-initialization-file - Share links to Emacs initialization files with minimal effort!

evil-org-mode - Supplemental evil-mode keybindings to emacs org-mode

sensible.emacs.d - Sensible and minimal starting Emacs configuration. A clean room implementation of a pure vanilla Emacs configuration that is sanely manageable, and practically useful.

dotfiles - arch linux configuration files

emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup

dotfiles

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers