dotfiles
CLI, Emacs, Hammerspoon (by overvale)
dotemacs
My .emacs and .bash_profile configuration (for syncing between computers) (by TotalView)
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-13.
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Any good recommendations for a total noob who wants to try out emacs?
I got a lot out of starting off with this fella's minimum.el file: https://github.com/olivertaylor/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/cookbook/minimum.el
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Emacs config without use-package - an experiment
Yeah, at first glance you have over 100 require statements in your config (some of those might be behind with-eval-after-load). I would guess that cleaning that up to only the minimum you need would get your startup time WAY down. Mine, for example, is around .75 seconds. I only explicitly require 9 packages, the rest are autoloaded.
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How package.el Works with Use Package
It's not necessary for me. The very first line in my init file is:
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Creating a dot-files repo that contains my emacs files
If I can recommend a starting place, I have a starter init file that I recommend to people getting started. It's what I wish I had when I started.
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What is the best way to set up Emacs on macOS Big Sur?
Into your new init file paste my personal starter config. It doesn't do a lot but it does 4 main things:
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'Best' Emacs port for Mac - early 2021 edition?
You might also be interested in my personal "minimum" configuration. Basically, it's what I wish I had started with.
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Extending Emacs Bookmarks to Work With EWW
The relevant part of my config can be found here.
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 2021-02-12.
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Extending Emacs Bookmarks to Work With EWW
;; Adapted from: ;; 1. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/bookmark%2B-1.el ;; 2. https://github.com/TotalView/dotemacs/blob/master/.emacs.d/elpa/w3m-20140330.1933/bookmark-w3m.el
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and dotemacs you can also consider the following projects:
build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
homebrew-emacsmacport - Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager
osa - Emacs Lisp to Open Scripting Architecture (AppleScript / JavaScript) bridge
emacs.d - My Emacs configuration (2018-2021)
emacs.d - An Emacs configuration bundle with batteries included
.emacs.d - My current Emacs setup.
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager