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logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
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zed
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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github-orgmode-tests
This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
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spacemacs
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
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prelude
Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 29.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better core alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-03-08.
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Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider
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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The Terminal of the Future
2. clone Doom into the right place as described at https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
- Doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax, LSP and Alire support
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Kaomel: a snappy kaomoji picker for Emacs
I'm traditionally a shell person when developing anything, and I like keeping that solid shell alternative in Emacs development too. No surprise I'm a Doom Emacs admirer: there's something deeply satisfying about typing ./doom doctor and watching it methodically check your entire configuration, so I initially adopted that approach for kaomel.
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Take Two: Eshell
Doom Emacs (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs) essentially serves this purpose with its curated, modular configuration and excellent documentation that focuses on the most useful parts while hiding complexity.
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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
I used Spacemacs for years and recommend it to others. It was fantastic in the early days, but the stability seems to have diminished. I encountered more bugs over time that I'd have to troubleshoot and fix myself.
I switched to Doom Emacs a couple of years ago. It's well-maintained with regular updates, fantastic language support, and lightning fast. The CLI tooling is also nice (i.e., you can run 'doom upgrade' to update everything, or 'doom doctor' if you encounter an issue).
It's the closest equivalent to VS Code in terms of working out of the box. Not to mention the advantages of Emacs with Vim keybindings. There is a learning curve, but the GitHub documentation is excellent.
Adding support for Ruby on Rails development, for example, is as simple as uncommenting '(ruby +rails +lsp)' line in the '~/.config/init.el' file, and then running 'doom sync'. There's a long list of supported languages and tooling [0].
[0] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/static/in...
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Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy
I use Doom[1], which is put together by people who know a heck of a lot more about Emacs than I do. Almost all my configuration is just turning on the features I want. Maybe once every year or two I check that my configuration is using stuff that has be superseded. This is super easy to use, gives me a great Emacs experience, and takes almost no work to maintain.
[1]: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
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Helix-gpui: helix gpui front end
Having used evil-mode as my main driver for years, I can confirm that it truly works as expected. Requires some setup though. I used https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs to do the heavy lifting though.
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