homebrew-emacsmacport VS dotemacs

Compare homebrew-emacsmacport vs dotemacs and see what are their differences.

homebrew-emacsmacport

Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager (by railwaycat)

dotemacs

My emacs configuration. (by mclear-tools)
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homebrew-emacsmacport

Posts with mentions or reviews of homebrew-emacsmacport. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.

dotemacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotemacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-16.
  • emacs-groundup
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 16 May 2022
    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.
  • tab-bar-mode: How to change tab bar appearence?
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Mar 2022
    Another thing you might consider (this depends on how many tabs you usually keep open, etc.) is not displaying tabs in the tab-bar at all (setq tab-bar-show nil) and displaying them in the echo-area instead. I use a combination of https://github.com/fritzgrabo/tab-bar-echo-area and https://github.com/qaiviq/echo-bar.el to give a consistent but very unobtrusive presentation of the tabs in the echo bar on the bottom right. You can see that in this image -- and my config for it is here.
  • Has anyone ever written a research paper by only using org-mode?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Feb 2022
    Yes. It’s not a problem (it’s also easy to write papers in markdown using markdown mode). If you want to see some of the packages involved look at my setup-writing.el file in my config.
  • Writing papers/thesis in org with a barebone config
    5 projects | /r/orgmode | 27 Jan 2022
    You can take a look atmy setup and see if any of it looks helpful. The relevant modules for you will be:
  • How to C-x b but to related buffers only?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 15 Oct 2021
    Yeah +1 for perspective.el. I use it with projectile to manage projects and have discrete buffers for different projects. You can look at my setup if it is helpful here.
  • Bikeshedding Friday: How do you organize your init file?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Sep 2021
    I also think a multi file modular setup is the way to go. I do this in tandem with use-package statements and it works well and is relatively easy to troubleshoot. You’re welcome to see what might be useful to you from my config: https://github.com/mclear-tools/dotemacs
  • New grad student, new to emacs, hoping to use for academic note taking/writing, completely lost on where to start
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 7 May 2021
    My dotemacs is geared towards academic work. You're welcome to take a look.
  • Projectile for research and writing?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Apr 2021
    I use projectile, along with persp-mode, and eyebrowse, to handle all my writing projects. Here's the relevant part of my config
  • tmux-like sessins in emacs
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Mar 2021
    I use a single-frame but multi-project approach via projectile + eyebrowse. You can see the config here. It is partially adapted from code in spacemacs. I had formerly used different frames per project but found this unwieldy. And now I have dedicated "spaces" for terminal, agenda, notes, etc.
  • Spacemacs dilemma (mostly a rant)
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Jan 2021
    I used spacemacs for about a year before giving it up and going my own way based on similar kinds of frustrations. I found it relatively easy to pull out (or use as inspiration) the parts of spacemacs that I liked. You can see the current version of my config using evil and space as leader here. I think Doom is good, but I like maintaining my config and found it unnecessarily complicated for what I needed. YMMV. I'm actually in the process of simplifying my config now with features from nano-emacs and using icomplete-vertical/consult/embark. We'll see how that goes.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing homebrew-emacsmacport and dotemacs you can also consider the following projects:

homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

emacs-builds - Self-contained Emacs.app builds for macOS, with native-compilation support.

emacs-osx - Emacs on Mac OSX. Install with Nix

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS

exwm - Emacs X Window Manager

scimax - An emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers

osa - Emacs Lisp to Open Scripting Architecture (AppleScript / JavaScript) bridge

spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

persp-mode.el - named perspectives(set of buffers/window configs) for emacs