crafted-emacs
A sensible base Emacs configuration. (by SystemCrafters)
with-emacs.sh
Script to easily run Emacs with specified configurations (by alphapapa)
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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.
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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
with-emacs.sh
Posts with mentions or reviews of with-emacs.sh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Has the behavior of the %? escape in capture templates changed?
Well, this is impossible to test if you don't say on what version of Emacs you're experiencing this. You could test if it is your configuration by using the lovely with-emacs script to sandbox.
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Easiest Way To Switch Emacs Configs On The Fly?
Check out https://github.com/alphapapa/with-emacs.sh
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A Late Night Rant About Emacs
FWIW, I would generally recommend using with-emacs.sh rather than chemacs2, because it's much simpler to use: https://github.com/alphapapa/with-emacs.sh
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What happened to org-superstar-mode?
Whenever you encounter weird behavior, you should try to reproduce it in a clean Emacs config. This script makes that easy: https://github.com/alphapapa/with-emacs.sh
- Init file anywhere?
- with-emacs.sh: Script to easily run Emacs with specified configurations
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Chemacs2 has an influence on how my emacs works
Not to poach, but you might try this alternative: https://github.com/alphapapa/with-emacs.sh
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Emacs finally got a command line switch to set user-emacs-directory
Wow, finally! And just when I've gotten the bugs ironed out of with-emacs.sh and makem.sh related to Emacs 28's changes. Well, pre-29 versions will still be around for a long time, so with-emacs.sh will remain useful, but it will be nice to have support for this integrated into Emacs.
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Starting fresh?
Sure, but you don't have to throw away your old, comfortable, known-good config to try a new one. Use with-emacs.sh to run as many Emacs configs as you like.
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What is your Emacs window/frame usage stye?
And about 20 minutes later (native comp with full AOT takes a while), I could just run emacs-28.0.60 (or with my script, with-emacs.sh -e emacs-28.0.60 -d ~/src/emacs/configs/ap.el).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing crafted-emacs and with-emacs.sh you can also consider the following projects:
chemacs2 - Emacs version switcher, improved
burly.el - Save and restore frames and windows with their buffers in Emacs
.emacs.d - My emacs configuration
makem.sh - Makefile-like script for linting and testing Emacs Lisp packages
no-littering - Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean
doomemacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
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.
dotemacs
ihsec - ihsec - I hate Switching Emacs Configs - A symlink machine to change your ~/.emacs.d quickly and efficiently.
portacle - A portable common lisp development environment
crafted-emacs vs chemacs2
with-emacs.sh vs burly.el
crafted-emacs vs .emacs.d
with-emacs.sh vs makem.sh
crafted-emacs vs no-littering
with-emacs.sh vs chemacs2
crafted-emacs vs doomemacs
with-emacs.sh vs emacs.onboard
crafted-emacs vs dotemacs
with-emacs.sh vs ihsec
crafted-emacs vs emacs.onboard
with-emacs.sh vs portacle