frontmacs
Package-based, web-centric, customizable, awesome-by-default, acceptance-tested Emacs distribution (by thefrontside)
scimax
An emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers (by jkitchin)
| frontmacs | scimax | |
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| 3 | 19 | |
| 495 | 997 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 0.0 | 6.1 | |
| 8 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
frontmacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of frontmacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-18.
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Having tons of issues setting up a typescript environment in emacs
If you’re new to emacs and just need it to work with frontend development (including TS) i’d suggest this all in one package: https://github.com/thefrontside/frontmacs . Then, with time you can mess with lsp mode, eglot, tide, treesitter , and so on…
- JavaScript Autocompletion?
- Emacs as a universal front-end interface
scimax
Posts with mentions or reviews of scimax.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.
- Scimax: An Emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers
- Jupyter and org-mode in scimax [video]
- Testing different Emacs distros easy way in Emacs 29/30
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Switched to Emacs a week ago, really thrilled so far. Looking for help on a few (somewhat advanced) questions.
Scimax should have out of box setup for bibliography, references etc. Anyway, regardless of what you use Emacs for, one step a time, would be my recommendation. Just start using it and solve problems as you experience them. It is better to add a single thing at a time when you need it, than to add 1000 different things because you think you will need them, and then not know what you have or what causes a problem.
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Embed excalidraw in Emacs?
https://github.com/wdavew/org-excalidraw is close. I discovered you can install Excalidraw from Chrome, and then it is like a local program. That is pretty amazing in itself. org-excalidraw indeed offers an org-link and way to make an excalidraw file from emacs, edited natively in an external excalidraw window. The svg preview does not work though if you use freehand lines in your image, and I was unable to install the npm packages on my Mac for some uninteresting reason related to DNS, but it did work in a node docker image. I find writing in excalidraw less advanced than in tools like Notability or PDFExpert. There are some artifacts in excalidraw from smoothing, or dangling pixels that I don't love. I forgot I had previously used https://github.com/lepisma/org-krita. Krita is a full drawing program, and this integrates into org-mode with image previews nicely. I am not that skilled in using it, and as a full drawing program, it has a learning curve. I wrote https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-inkscape.el to integrate inkscape into org-mode. It works, but I find inkscape slow to open, and I am not that skilled in using it.
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Emacs and knowledge management for scientists
Maybe give scimax a go?
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Emacs as org-mode interpreter - standalone, batch mode?
Anyway, if you want something geared toward scientific usage, there is Scimax by J. Kitchin. There may be some others, but I am not aware off.
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emacs distributions without evil?
Apart from the ones already mention, John Kitchin's science-focused Scimacs is also an option.
- Preferred Citation Management and Knowledge Management Tools?
- How it goes with me learning orgmode
What are some alternatives?
When comparing frontmacs and scimax you can also consider the following projects:
emacs.d - My Emacs configuration (2018-2021)
.emacs.d - Emacs backup of mine
pel - Pragmatic Emacs Library
.spacemacs.d - My spacemacs config files. For spacemacs source, see https://github.com/capsulecorplab/spacemacs
perfect-margin - [emacs] auto center emacs windows, work with minimap and/or linum-mode
org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
doom.d - My somewhat modular emacs config.
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
remacs - Rust :heart: Emacs
citar - Emacs package to quickly find and act on bibliographic references, and edit org, markdown, and latex academic documents.
qpdf.el - A transient Emacs wrapper for qpdf
dotemacs - My emacs configuration.