My Emacs eye candy

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  • dotsies

    Dot files, Emacs config, etc

  • OP here. The linked tweaks are straight from my config. I can try help work out why it doesn’t look the same for ya. Would need to see your elisp snippets. May be easier to discuss on GitHub. Maybe open an issue on https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies

  • indent-rainbow

  • Colors are surprisingly helpful!

    Vim+Python might be more popular than Emacs+Lisp, so here's my rainbow mode plugin to help with Tabs: https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow

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  • zone-matrix

  • parrot

    A package to rotate text and party with parrots at the same time (by dp12)

  • Shout out to `parrot-mode` for emacs[0]! My life would be incomplete without a dank parrot in my modeline.

    [0] https://github.com/dp12/parrot

  • doomemacs

    An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

  • You can try doomemacs if you want a solid starting base. (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs). Emacs is so idiosyncratic compared to a lot of modern stuff people are used to, starting with a base like this where you can read config may be a little easier than trying to do it from the ground up.

  • nano-emacs

    GNU Emacs / N Λ N O - Emacs made simple

  • I think this is a pretty low bar for Emacs eye-candy... Nicolas Rougier's "Nano Emacs" [0], or his previous "Elegant Emacs" [1] are better examples. You can also get pretty far using variable-pitch mode for mixing fonts (for example in org-mode [2]).

    [0]: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs

  • elegant-emacs

    A very minimal but elegant emacs (I think)

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • org-modern

    :unicorn: Modern Org Style

  • olivetti

    Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins

  • vim-indent-guides

    A Vim plugin for visually displaying indent levels in code

  • Upvote to the "skinny guides" (thin vertical lines) feature linked from your TODO: https://github.com/preservim/vim-indent-guides#screenshots

  • emacs-maple-echoarea

    Auto hide echo area and show modeline

  • I haven't tried it recently, so it's quite possible it's broken but this package has an autohide behavior for the echo area: https://github.com/honmaple/emacs-maple-echoarea You might be able to adapt it.

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