Shell Emacs

Open-source Shell 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 23 Shell Emac Projects

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  1. emacs-anywhere

    Configurable automation + hooks called with application information

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  3. portacle

    A portable common lisp development environment

    Project mention: The lost cause of the Lisp machines | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-20

  4. dotfiles

    Let's be honest: mostly Emacs. (by hrs)

  5. cloudmacs

    Selfhost your Emacs and access it in browser

  6. org-sidebar

    A helpful sidebar for Org mode

  7. dotfiles

    garden (by neeasade)

  8. dotfiles

    If there is a shell, there is a way! (by meain)

  9. makem.sh

    Makefile-like script for linting and testing Emacs Lisp packages

  10. with-emacs.sh

    Script to easily run Emacs with specified configurations

  11. dotfiles

    :rocket: @1995parham Linux / OSx configurations files (by 1995parham)

  12. dotfiles

    Dotfiles for my NixOS system based on Dracula theme (by ericdallo)

  13. emacs-gcc-wayland-devel-builder

    Emacs with native compilation ("gcc") and Wayland support

  14. mu-wizard

    mu4e configuration wizard

  15. ihsec

    ihsec - I hate Switching Emacs Configs - A symlink machine to change your ~/.emacs.d quickly and efficiently.

  16. org-recent-headings

    Go to recently used Org headings

  17. org-popup

    Take notes for emacs org-mode using pop-ups

  18. org-auto-expand

    Automatically expand certain Org headings

  19. dotfiles

    Custom dotfile configurations and settings (by happy-dude)

  20. teton

    🌄 Dotfiles that make you feel at $HOME.

  21. dotfiles

    Arch Linux dotfiles. (by sadiksaifi)

  22. dotfiles

    My Linux configuration files (by kwpav)

  23. exwm-config

    A collection of dotfiles that code for my computational environment, built around emacs with exwm. Designed with FreeBSD and Arch Linux in mind.

  24. firefox-tor-remap-C-n-and-C-p-for-search-bar-navigation

    remap C-n and C-p in firefox and tor for search bar navigation. Makes the keybindings more consistent with emacs.

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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  • The lost cause of the Lisp machines

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2025

  • Selling Lisp by the Pound

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024

  • org-auto-expand: Automatically expand certain Org headings

    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 14 Oct 2023

  • Release v0.6 · alphapapa/makem.sh (test and lint Elisp packages)

    1 project | /r/emacs | 28 Aug 2023

  • Has the behavior of the %? escape in capture templates changed?

    1 project | /r/orgmode | 3 Aug 2023

  • Ask HN: Do Emacs users feel as stuck without Emacs, as Vim users do with Vim?

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2023

  • Easiest Way To Switch Emacs Configs On The Fly?

    5 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Jun 2023
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Index

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

# Project Stars
1 emacs-anywhere 1,096
2 portacle 764
3 dotfiles 624
4 cloudmacs 579
5 org-sidebar 553
6 dotfiles 393
7 dotfiles 279
8 makem.sh 177
9 with-emacs.sh 173
10 dotfiles 119
11 dotfiles 99
12 emacs-gcc-wayland-devel-builder 89
13 mu-wizard 77
14 ihsec 67
15 org-recent-headings 61
16 org-popup 43
17 org-auto-expand 31
18 dotfiles 22
19 teton 19
20 dotfiles 18
21 dotfiles 15
22 exwm-config 12
23 firefox-tor-remap-C-n-and-C-p-for-search-bar-navigation 12

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