dot-emacs
Personal emacs startup file accumulated through the years (by scarpazza)
awesome-emacs
A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items. (by emacs-tw)
| dot-emacs | awesome-emacs | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 19 | |
| 2 | 8,299 | |
| - | 0.6% | |
| 5.9 | 6.8 | |
| 3 months ago | 16 days ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | ||
| - | The Unlicense |
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.
dot-emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of dot-emacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.
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Emacs bankruptcy
This is mine https://github.com/scarpazza/dot-emacs, but I can't promise you'll find anything useful there. I'm heavy on helm, git, and having things one keystroke away via a 122-key keyboard.
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Customizing Emacs bindings for custom keyboard layouts
Just for inspiration, take a look at https://github.com/scarpazza/battlecruiser and https://github.com/scarpazza/dot-emacs
- Almost 7 years... yet still no fa-emacs
awesome-emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-emacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.
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What packages do the cool kids use these days?
“A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.” https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs
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Emacs bankruptcy
I've used emacs for about the same (started with microemacs in the 80s). I also had an extremely crufty init.el and recently decided to start over. I compared 19 emacs distributions (from this list and this r/emacs post). I looked at
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Making Emacs more approachable
But, to be honest, I think it simply is not for everyone. But sure one thing is lacking (as far as I know): a metatutorial. Like a big "chart" telling people what can be done with Emacs (with a few examples), something like https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs for newcomers.
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Emacs + a nice theme + editing features is awesome! (plus some questions about extra configuration)
Awesome-emqcs is a great resource for knowing what packages are there: https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs
- Awesome Emacs: a community-driven list of useful Emacs packages, etc.
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How Can I Start the Daunting Task of Making my Own Config?
For packages, Checking what people in the community commonly use, such as in https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs/ or checking packages for review in Doom Emacs helps a lot in selection. There are also great guides, such as Kristoffer Balintona's https://kristofferbalintona.me/categories/guides/. Personally, my bias in selecting packagges is towards the ones that integrate well with built-in Emacs functionalities. I could provide you a list if you want.
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Using emacs and learning emacs-lisp as an absolute beginner
Take it slowly, check some packages that seem like they might be useful to you: (check https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs out for example).
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What does your workflow look like on Linux?
Awesome Emacs for utility-oriented packages
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What are some must-have packages for emacs?
Awesome Emacs, a community driven list of useful Emacs packages, utilities and libraries
- Awesome Emacs: a community driven list of useful Emacs packages, utilities and libraries.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dot-emacs and awesome-emacs you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-bedrock - [Mirror] Stepping stones to a better Emacs experience
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
Font-Awesome - The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit
spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
battlecruiser - Restoration and modern usage of vintage IBM M 122-key a.k.a. "battlecruiser" keyboards
web-mode - web template editing mode for emacs
discoverable-emacs - (not ready for public release) emacs distribution aimed at improving discoverability and allowing intuitive mouse usage
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
emacs.d - emacs configuration using straight.el and use-package
so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow
rekit - IDE and toolkit for building scalable web applications with React, Redux and React-router
dot-emacs vs emacs-bedrock
awesome-emacs vs doom-emacs
dot-emacs vs Font-Awesome
awesome-emacs vs spacemacs
dot-emacs vs battlecruiser
awesome-emacs vs web-mode
dot-emacs vs discoverable-emacs
awesome-emacs vs Visual Studio Code
dot-emacs vs emacs.d
awesome-emacs vs so
dot-emacs vs spacemacs
awesome-emacs vs rekit