momacs
The Missing Emacs starter-kit! (by progfolio)
castlemacs
Modern, minimalist Emacs for macOS ⌘ (by freetonik)
| momacs | castlemacs | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 | |
| 28 | 337 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.6 | |
| over 2 years ago | almost 4 years ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
| - | MIT License |
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momacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of momacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-31.
castlemacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of castlemacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-30.
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I'm switching to emacs from neovim
I started my Emacs journey with Spacemacs but it wasn't good since it's not actually Emacs - you need to learn entirely new stuff on top of Emacs stuff. In the end I gave up and settled with IntelliJ IDEA for Scala development. In five years I returned to Emacs, but started from very simple Castlemacs distribution, learning the meaning of each line, copying to my config only settings I needed, mostly related to configuring Emacs to behave properly on macOS. I don't bother with Doom Emacs, my startup time of 3 seconds doesn't bother me.
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starter config for switching to emacs from neovim
I started from this https://github.com/freetonik/castlemacs, it's not been updated for a few years, but a good starting point if you're on macOS.
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MOMACS: FINALLY A BEGINNER FRIENDLY EMACS
https://github.com/freetonik/castlemacs is the approach where I finally understood and was the missing tutorial for mac users. I've done the emacs embedded tutorial, but got stuck at that weird usage of ESC key as Meta key. That repo laid down the bridgework to me being comfortable with emacs. Still very sparse, but getting there!
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How can I get the novice programmers I coach to adopt Emacs?
Lower the barrier to entry, maybe give them your configuration or some sort of starter-kit, I think castlemacs is good choice as it is quite simple and useable. Tell them to fork it on Github and use it.
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Emacs in fifty keystrokes (and why some of you should just use Vim)
I think IJKL keys are probably better then arrow keys, see how castlemacs does it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing momacs and castlemacs you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-ng - A new approach to Emacs - Including TypeScript, Threading, Async I/O, and WebRender.
no-littering - Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean
crafted-emacs - A sensible base Emacs configuration.
kickstart.el
jupyter - An interface to communicate with Jupyter kernels.
emacs-ipython-notebook - Jupyter notebook client in Emacs
emacs - Yet another Emacs configuration.
home - my linux home settings
evil-collection - A set of keybindings for evil-mode
quickrun - Run command quickly. This packages is inspired quickrun.vim
fussy - Emacs completion-style leveraging flx