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doom-emacs
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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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.emacs.d
My personal Emacs config with any quirks, oddities, bugs, and man-eating errors I live with on a daily basis. (by jimeh)
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How to build a config
I am building an emacs config, I have got a list and plan of what I want, but I am not sure where I start building, are their any guides or docs on how to build a config from scratch, explainations of concepts like lazy loading, how the different package managers work and what they do, and all the built in emacs concepts and features I have gone though this tutorial, but it doesn't explain anything and doesn't show how to customise anything.
- Need help w/ buffer management when opening new buffers.
- I feel stuck in my emacs learning curve.
- Modal editor
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How I take notes as a Math major using Vim + LaTeX
Check out the YouTube channel System Crafters, he has a multipart series "Emacs From Scratch" where he goes over setting up his Emacs installation and setup, and other videos showing how you can do all sorts of things.
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Projectile--what am I missing?
There are guides and even video series that cover a lot of beginner stuff. masteringemacs.org has a lot of great articles, and the System Crafters YouTube channel has a lot of great looking stuff.
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Diagnosing issue with mu4e/SMTP send
Hey, I recently set up mu4e following SystemCrafter's guide and was pleased to find everything worked upon setup.
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How to start developing for emacs?
This Youtube Channel has a lot of emacs development, even there's a course to learn emacs lisp.
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Emacs on Youtube: what are some good videos?
Depending on what you are looking for, System Crafters has a lot of Emacs content.
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Building an Intelligent Emacs
A bit older http://emacsrocks.com One of my favourite episodes being http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html the ending is just awesome.
System Crafters yt channel is much newer and also amazing https://youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters
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about 3 years ago
The primary programming language of emacs-from-scratch is Emacs Lisp.
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