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Top 9 Emacs Lisp emacs-initialization Projects

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  1. emfy

    A dark and sleek Emacs setup for general purpose editing and programming

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. 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

    Project mention: My 2025 review | dev.to | 2026-01-05

    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.

  4. frontmacs

    Package-based, web-centric, customizable, awesome-by-default, acceptance-tested Emacs distribution

  5. emacs4cl

    A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming

    Project mention: Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-10

  6. pel

    Pragmatic Emacs Leverage

  7. medicated-emacs

    A minimal, modern Emacs configuration

    Project mention: Show HN: Medicated Emacs, Work-Ready Vanilla Emacs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-17

  8. emacs-config

    A literate emacs configuration for C#, python, ivy, yasnippet, ... (by Atman50)

  9. iqa.el

    (Emacs) Init file (and directory) Quick Access.

  10. dotemacs

    Emacs initialization as org file. It is a constant work in progress. (by julienchastang)

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).

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What are some of the best open-source emacs-initialization projects in Emacs Lisp? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 emfy 966
2 minimal-emacs.d 838
3 frontmacs 504
4 emacs4cl 392
5 pel 57
6 medicated-emacs 48
7 emacs-config 34
8 iqa.el 11
9 dotemacs 4

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