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Top 23 Emacs Lisp emacs-configuration Projects
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frontmacs
Package-based, web-centric, customizable, awesome-by-default, acceptance-tested Emacs distribution
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minimal-emacs.d
minimal-emacs.d - Better Emacs defaults and optimized startup, intended to serve as a solid foundation for your vanilla Emacs configuration
In this post I assume you already have some Emacs experience and now how to configure packages and write small Elisp snippets. I personally use straight.el as a package manager, minimal-emacs.d as a minimal vanilla Emacs configuration (along with my own custommizations), dape as the debug adapter client and eglot as my LSP client.
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.doom.d
Private DOOM Emacs config highly focused around orgmode and GTD methodology, along with language support for Python and Elisp.
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crazy-theme.el
🎲 A Crazy Emacs theme🎨 for crazy people🌪️. Tired of the same old color scheme every day😩? Try it out and add some chaos to your coding life! 😈
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Emacs Lisp emacs-configuration discussion
Emacs Lisp emacs-configuration related posts
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Doom Emacs
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Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
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Emacs Advent Calendar 8: emacs-goodnight
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Emacs Advent Calendar 7: ordeless, embark 1.0 and some bric-a-brac
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galactic-emacs: An Emacs distribution coming from the space
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How to disable corfu only when `lsp-bride-mode` is active?
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duomacs: Dan's usability-oriented Emacs config files
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Index
What are some of the best open-source emacs-configuration projects in Emacs Lisp? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | doomemacs | 20,570 |
| 2 | .emacs.d | 2,058 |
| 3 | emacs-from-scratch | 1,825 |
| 4 | elegant-emacs | 1,396 |
| 5 | .emacs.d | 707 |
| 6 | frontmacs | 503 |
| 7 | minimal-emacs.d | 436 |
| 8 | .emacs.d | 265 |
| 9 | .doom.d | 242 |
| 10 | lunarymacs | 241 |
| 11 | dotfiles | 227 |
| 12 | circadian.el | 186 |
| 13 | .emacs.d | 169 |
| 14 | galactic-emacs | 123 |
| 15 | dmacs | 117 |
| 16 | emacs.d | 116 |
| 17 | jcs-emacs | 101 |
| 18 | emacs-config | 92 |
| 19 | dotfiles | 49 |
| 20 | crazy-theme.el | 44 |
| 21 | emacs.d | 35 |
| 22 | emacs-config | 34 |
| 23 | dotfiles | 31 |
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