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Top 23 Emacs Lisp emacs-configuration Projects
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Project mention: Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-08
Firstly, the original comment was about UI rather than aesthetics. Secondly, as with everything else in Emacs, you can customise the appearance however you want. Those screenshots are from vanilla Emacs. Most people heavily customise, or use an Emacs distro like Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/) or Doom (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs?tab=readme-ov-file) which have more sensible default appearance configs.
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minimal-emacs.d
minimal-emacs.d - A Customizable Emacs init.el and early-init.el for Better Defaults and Optimized Startup, intended to serve as a solid foundation for your vanilla Emacs configuration | Emacs Starter Kit
No surprises here. It still does its job at almost every task and is the perfect companion to Claude. At some point this year, I again refactored my whole dotemacs to use https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d as a basis.
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frontmacs
Package-based, web-centric, customizable, awesome-by-default, acceptance-tested Emacs distribution
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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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Project mention: Show HN: Medicated Emacs, Work-Ready Vanilla Emacs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-17
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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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emacs.onboard
🚀 Emacs onboarding made easy – single-file Emacs starter kit without 3rd-party packages. Almost vanilla Emacs, with just the right amount of sweetness to flatten the learning curve.
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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Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider
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Doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax, LSP and Alire support
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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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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 | core | 22,482 |
| 2 | .emacs.d | 2,200 |
| 3 | emacs-from-scratch | 1,899 |
| 4 | elegant-emacs | 1,434 |
| 5 | minimal-emacs.d | 845 |
| 6 | .emacs.d | 730 |
| 7 | frontmacs | 504 |
| 8 | .emacs.d | 266 |
| 9 | lunarymacs | 249 |
| 10 | .doom.d | 245 |
| 11 | circadian.el | 203 |
| 12 | .emacs.d | 168 |
| 13 | galactic-emacs | 124 |
| 14 | dmacs | 124 |
| 15 | emacs.d | 115 |
| 16 | emacs-config | 110 |
| 17 | jcs-emacs | 109 |
| 18 | medicated-emacs | 48 |
| 19 | crazy-theme.el | 45 |
| 20 | emacs.d | 36 |
| 21 | emacs-config | 34 |
| 22 | my-emacs-config | 33 |
| 23 | emacs.onboard | 30 |
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