robe VS doomemacs

I also did this for over 20 years (well, with screen(1) back in the day first) and I managed a lot of scripts for rsync(1)ing configs and source code. Emacs was designed to run as a GUI and makes heavy use of control sequences that affect terminal emulators (such as C-c, C-s, C-q, C-h, C-z, etc.); I spent considerable time forcing Emacs to work nicely in my terminal under tmux (where I've always used M-t as my prefix key, but that's a story for another time!), and I had a pretty nice terminal workflow that way, but it was laughably and ironically a PITA to get Control-H and backspace working in a way that was satisfiable to me in all cases of all layers (terminal emulator -> tmux -> zsh -> emacs). I eventually gave up on that for reasons related to an insane thing I discovered and make heavy use of, called Org Mode, which I primarily use to organize and maintain and evaluate code blocks of scripting languages with a REPL integration (the whole reason I switched to Emacs one day in a fury of ragequitting Vim was to try Robe Mode). So I now run Emacs in the GUI as demigods intended, but this will likely not be an option for you given your SSH workflow.

This means I can be editing a shell script and easily inject arbitrary regions into a shell buffer for immediate testing (point never leaves the window where I am editing, and I can view the shell output in an adjacent window). This is similar to what Robe does with Pry within an inferior Ruby process using comint.

I work on a large rails project with Emacs and I had a lot of trouble with Eglot and LSP mode with Solargraph, and decided to try Robe and it has been working well for me the past few days

Yes, you need to install Emacs. It is probably available from whatever package manager your system uses.

I prefer Doom (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs) to Spacemacs. However I haven't looked at Spacemacs for many years; perhaps it's now on par with Doom.

Ever since I've started my Emacs journey it seemed like the wholy grail to have your own (vanilla!) configuration without any hard dependencies on frameworks like Doom or Spacemacs. There are plenty of dotemacs configurations ouf there which can serve as a great source of inspiration.

Use doomemacs for a start. It really optimizes startup time and offers vast included modules as well as great package management. https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/docs/gett...

I installed Corfu using this PR in doom https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/pull/7002

The doom documentation does a pretty good job of walking you through this: - https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/docs/getting_started.org - https://noelwelsh.com/posts/doom-emacs/

I was poking around and opened up the README.org file in the Doom Emac's faust module and i saw these nifty nagivation things that weren't coming form within the file. I didn't see anything in the directory that hinted at it (to me) either.

I tried this code: $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ~/.config/emacs ~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install

I am a long-time Emacs user and used to maintain my own config, but I switched to Doom Emacs [1] a year ago. Doom Emacs is like a pre-packaged/pre-configured emacs distro. You still need to configure the features that you want to use, but it's a lot easier (and faster) than having to do everything from scratch, and definitely if you already have some emacs background anyway. For me, it makes the newer, more advanced, features more accessible. Since switching, I started to use Emacs more again.

[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

Try an emacs distribution and see if you like it:https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs