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At some point I realised maintaining my own Emacs setup was just too much work. I've used a few Emacs setups (Prelude and Spacemacs are the ones I used for the

At some point I realised maintaining my own Emacs setup was just too much work. I've used a few Emacs setups (Prelude and Spacemacs are the ones I used for the longest) and now I use Doom: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs It's very fast and has a lot of built-in in niceties, and I find it easier to understand than Spacemacs. If you use Doom make sure to use the develop branch.

simias 8y ago
Oh man, your link led me to shackle[1] to make transient buffers behave and I have wanted that for... well for as long as I've been using Emacs really, and that's quite a long time now. I don't get how anybody is fine with Emacs' default "let's pop this buffer anywhere, possibly hiding a useful window". [1] https://github.com/wasamasa/shackle https://github.com/wasamasa/shackle
- pulisse 8y ago
  That looks awesome. Emacs's default behavior in this respect is theoretically customizable, but the mechanism for doing so (display-buffer-alist) is (to me) incomprehensible. It seems like what Shackle does is provide a clean interface for specifying rules that get translated into display-buffer-alist rules.
  - simias 8y ago
    Yeah I've tried a few time to customize this behavior over the years and while I did manage to improve it somewhat it's still far from how I'd like it to be.
catacombs 8y ago
I agree. Doom takes the best of emacs and vim and mashes them together nicely. I've been using it for more than a year and haven't looked back. There is a challenge configuring your version of Doom, but the project's Discord channel is active, friendly and helpful.
androidgirl 8y ago
That README feels like it's aimed explicitly at me. Maybe it's time to try it out
fu86 8y ago
doom-emacs looks very nice, but development stopped on January? There is an "development" branch, which is ~4000 commits ahead from master. The documentation suggests fetching the master branch, so whats the deal here?
- noelwelsh 8y ago
  Use the develop branch. It hasn't been merged into master because of long running reworking, but I don't follow Doom closely enough to know all the details.
  - black-tea 8y ago
    Master is almost 4000 commits behind but zero commits ahead after almost a year so simply shouldn't exist. Multiple eternal branches are pointless and need to stop.
    - noelwelsh 8y ago
      Go tell the core developers...
mrighele 8y ago
What part of your setup was taking a lot of time to maintain ? I find that once I configured something I rarely need to change it. There are some packages that tend to break existing configurations when updated, but that is not something that I do regularly.
- noelwelsh 8y ago
  There are new packages coming out that are really useful but I'm not going to find out about them on my own. For instance, I didn't know about helm until I started using Spacemacs.

simias 8y ago

Oh man, your link led me to shackle[1] to make transient buffers behave and I have wanted that for... well for as long as I've been using Emacs really, and that's quite a long time now. I don't get how anybody is fine with Emacs' default "let's pop this buffer anywhere, possibly hiding a useful window". [1] https://github.com/wasamasa/shackle https://github.com/wasamasa/shackle

pulisse 8y ago
That looks awesome. Emacs's default behavior in this respect is theoretically customizable, but the mechanism for doing so (display-buffer-alist) is (to me) incomprehensible. It seems like what Shackle does is provide a clean interface for specifying rules that get translated into display-buffer-alist rules.
- simias 8y ago
  Yeah I've tried a few time to customize this behavior over the years and while I did manage to improve it somewhat it's still far from how I'd like it to be.

catacombs 8y ago

I agree. Doom takes the best of emacs and vim and mashes them together nicely. I've been using it for more than a year and haven't looked back. There is a challenge configuring your version of Doom, but the project's Discord channel is active, friendly and helpful.

androidgirl 8y ago

That README feels like it's aimed explicitly at me. Maybe it's time to try it out

fu86 8y ago

doom-emacs looks very nice, but development stopped on January? There is an "development" branch, which is ~4000 commits ahead from master. The documentation suggests fetching the master branch, so whats the deal here?

noelwelsh 8y ago
Use the develop branch. It hasn't been merged into master because of long running reworking, but I don't follow Doom closely enough to know all the details.
- black-tea 8y ago
  Master is almost 4000 commits behind but zero commits ahead after almost a year so simply shouldn't exist. Multiple eternal branches are pointless and need to stop.
  - noelwelsh 8y ago
    Go tell the core developers...

mrighele 8y ago

What part of your setup was taking a lot of time to maintain ? I find that once I configured something I rarely need to change it. There are some packages that tend to break existing configurations when updated, but that is not something that I do regularly.

noelwelsh 8y ago
There are new packages coming out that are really useful but I'm not going to find out about them on my own. For instance, I didn't know about helm until I started using Spacemacs.