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For those coming from say VS Code is there an opinionated “flavor” of Emacs that comes pre-configured with batteries and everything included. A place to test d

For those coming from say VS Code is there an opinionated “flavor” of Emacs that comes pre-configured with batteries and everything included. A place to test drive it’s power and use of as a daily driver before being confident to properly “roll your own”. Curious.

forty 5y ago
I use Doom Emacs, it's great.
BoysenberryPi 5y ago
Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are the most popular two. I recommend Doom Emacs although Spacemacs is what I started with and I find it to be more user friendly.
circuit 5y ago
Yes. There are two major "flavors" I know of: 1. doom-emacs and 2. spacemacs I've only tried spacemacs and after a brief stint with it I was able to roll my own init.el by use-package'ing the things I liked and tinkering with it. glhf 1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs 2 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
yewenjie 5y ago
https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs#starter-kit https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs#starter-kit
dhosek 5y ago
On the Mac, I recommend Aquamacs. It has many of the most popular packages pre-installed.
- trenchgun 5y ago
  Is there a reason to use it over Doom?
  - b3morales 5y ago
    If you're a Mac user, it can be a more comfortable form of Emacs: it goes to great lengths to act like a typical Mac application. Unfortunately it's also based on an older version of Emacs, so you miss out on some things.
vegai_ 5y ago
Like others have said, Doom is pretty good these days. It's a bit on-the-edge (the main installation comes from the master git branch) but seems to usually work.
b3morales 5y ago
Besides Doom and Spacemacs that others have mentioned, there's also Prelude: https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/ https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/

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For those coming from say VS Code is there an opinionated “flavor” of Emacs that comes pre-configured with batteries and everything included. A place to test d

by evolve2k 5y ago

forty 5y ago
I use Doom Emacs, it's great.
BoysenberryPi 5y ago
Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are the most popular two. I recommend Doom Emacs although Spacemacs is what I started with and I find it to be more user friendly.
circuit 5y ago
Yes. There are two major "flavors" I know of: 1. doom-emacs and 2. spacemacs I've only tried spacemacs and after a brief stint with it I was able to roll my own init.el by use-package'ing the things I liked and tinkering with it. glhf 1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs 2 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
yewenjie 5y ago
https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs#starter-kit https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs#starter-kit
dhosek 5y ago
On the Mac, I recommend Aquamacs. It has many of the most popular packages pre-installed.
- trenchgun 5y ago
  Is there a reason to use it over Doom?
  - b3morales 5y ago
    If you're a Mac user, it can be a more comfortable form of Emacs: it goes to great lengths to act like a typical Mac application. Unfortunately it's also based on an older version of Emacs, so you miss out on some things.
vegai_ 5y ago
Like others have said, Doom is pretty good these days. It's a bit on-the-edge (the main installation comes from the master git branch) but seems to usually work.
b3morales 5y ago
Besides Doom and Spacemacs that others have mentioned, there's also Prelude: https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/ https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/