Nix Emacs

Open-source Nix projects categorized as Emacs

Emacs or EMACS is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor".

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Top 12 Nix Emac Projects

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  1. nixos-config

    General purpose Nix starter template for macOS or NixOS w/ step-by-step instructions (by dustinlyons)

  2. AppSignal

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  3. dotfiles

    Configuration files for XMonad, Emacs, NixOS, Taffybar and more. (by colonelpanic8)

  4. twist.nix

    Build an entire Emacs configuration as a Nix package in a pure, reproducible way

  5. dotfiles

    🏠 (by martinbaillie)

  6. .dotfiles

    Flake-based, literate nix config for personal infrastructure (by Swarsel)

  7. dotfiles

    Not guaranteed to work outside of My Machine™ (by eudoxia0)

    Project mention: Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-01

  8. emacs

    Nightly custom Emacs builds for macOS Nix environments (by cmacrae)

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. dotfiles

    ~. Nix all the things! (by bobbbay)

  11. nsworld

    Welcome to NixOS world ❄️

  12. fromElisp

    An Emacs Lisp reader in Nix.

  13. nixcfg

    A modular, Wayland-enabled NixOS configuration. (by jakeisnt)

  14. willos

    Will's OS

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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  • Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2025

  • Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way

    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024

  • Adding a Mac to my flake

    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 8 Dec 2023

  • Show HN: You can try my unified Nix environment for macOS/NixOS

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2023

  • Show HN: You can try my unified Nix environment for macOS/NixOS

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2023

  • Nix configuration for MacOS and NixOS w/ starter templates + step-by-step guides

    1 project | /r/developers | 19 Oct 2023

  • Installing Python/PIP tools with home-manager

    3 projects | /r/Nix | 20 Jun 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Emac projects in Nix? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 nixos-config 3,648
2 dotfiles 222
3 twist.nix 121
4 dotfiles 90
5 .dotfiles 89
6 dotfiles 48
7 emacs 43
8 dotfiles 40
9 nsworld 39
10 fromElisp 39
11 nixcfg 37
12 willos 12

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