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I'm a long time user of Prelude myself and it is absolutely terrific. I like my Emacs to be well Emacs and prelude as opposed to many other configs fits that de

by willeh 6y ago

I'm a long time user of Prelude myself and it is absolutely terrific. I like my Emacs to be well Emacs and prelude as opposed to many other configs fits that description perfectly. A huge thanks to bbatsov for saving countless hours of configuring.

cwxm 6y ago
Have it tried Doom Emacs? If so, what do you prefer about Prelude over the former?
- zeveb 6y ago
  He did say that he prefers Emacs to be Emacs; Doom Emacs is more of a vim-in-Emacs, isn't it? That's probably a very good thing (were I starting out, I would probably use Doom or at least Evil mode), but for those of us used to the Emacs bindings it is a chore to switch now.
  - pantulis 6y ago
    Well in my case I prefer prelude because it seems like what it really is: a curated set of Emacs settings and configurations. Doom or Spacemacs really transmogrify Emacs into VSCode or whatnot -- I feel like I'm losing control of my Emacs config as they have layers and layers of elisp.
  - cnasc 6y ago
    I use Doom without the vim. Comment out one line of the default config and you retain all the niceness of doom (good defaults, fast loading) but with standard Emacs bindings.
- nvarsj 6y ago
  Not author, but I used Prelude for a long time and swapped to Doom a couple years ago and far prefer Doom's approach. Doom is just a git repo you check out into .emacs.d. It has no state other than updating your git repo to update Doom, and some cache files that can be removed at any time. It's way easier for me to reason about what's going on and to tweak things to my liking, and to have a consistent experience across multiple machines. You can run one command 'SPC-h-d-m' to go directly to the source code of any doom module and edit it and view what it does. It's not perfect (far too many regressions IMO across versions), but for the first time I feel like I have a super productive Emacs that I can actually grok and modify as a non-Emacs master.
bozhidar 6y ago
You're welcome! Thanks for the kind words!

by willeh 6y ago

cwxm 6y ago

Have it tried Doom Emacs? If so, what do you prefer about Prelude over the former?

zeveb 6y ago
He did say that he prefers Emacs to be Emacs; Doom Emacs is more of a vim-in-Emacs, isn't it? That's probably a very good thing (were I starting out, I would probably use Doom or at least Evil mode), but for those of us used to the Emacs bindings it is a chore to switch now.
- pantulis 6y ago
  Well in my case I prefer prelude because it seems like what it really is: a curated set of Emacs settings and configurations. Doom or Spacemacs really transmogrify Emacs into VSCode or whatnot -- I feel like I'm losing control of my Emacs config as they have layers and layers of elisp.
- cnasc 6y ago
  I use Doom without the vim. Comment out one line of the default config and you retain all the niceness of doom (good defaults, fast loading) but with standard Emacs bindings.
nvarsj 6y ago
Not author, but I used Prelude for a long time and swapped to Doom a couple years ago and far prefer Doom's approach. Doom is just a git repo you check out into .emacs.d. It has no state other than updating your git repo to update Doom, and some cache files that can be removed at any time. It's way easier for me to reason about what's going on and to tweak things to my liking, and to have a consistent experience across multiple machines. You can run one command 'SPC-h-d-m' to go directly to the source code of any doom module and edit it and view what it does. It's not perfect (far too many regressions IMO across versions), but for the first time I feel like I have a super productive Emacs that I can actually grok and modify as a non-Emacs master.

bozhidar 6y ago

You're welcome! Thanks for the kind words!