Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#1

Post by rakanalh » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 8:43 PM UTC

Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap
emacs-bootstrap.com

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#2

Post by cwisecarver » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 11:12 PM UTC

I can't get it to generate in either Chrome or Safari.

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#3

Post by cwisecarver » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 11:15 PM UTC

cwisecarver wrote: post #2

I can't get it to generate in either Chrome or Safari.

I went into the Safari console, selected the form element and ran $0.submit() and it worked...?

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#4

Post by quizotic » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 2:07 AM UTC

Wow! I use emacs every day, and this will make my life easier. Didn't know about these wonderful packages. And the automatic init-file generation probably save me hours and headaches.

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#5

Post by gumby » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 2:29 AM UTC

Cool. Considered adding Slime/SBCL?

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#6

Post by wcummings » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 2:57 AM UTC

I don't need this personally, but philosophically I prefer it to Spacemacs

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#7

Post by secstate » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 3:00 AM UTC

wcummings wrote: post #6

I don't need this personally, but philosophically I prefer it to Spacemacs

Would you mind elaborating on your philosophy against Spacemacs? I'm an avid user, but I'm totally open to arguments against it.

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

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Post by mark_l_watson » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 4:24 AM UTC

Very cool, thanks for doing this.

A bit off topic, but here is my Emacs configuration advice: keep a Dropbox folder 'emacs' where your confit file and installed packages live. On numerous laptops my .emacs file is a one line load, and for Linux servers where I don't want to install Dropbox support, I just drop a copy of Dropbox/Emacs into my home directory. I thought of using a git repo, but for now this works fine.

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#9

Post by wwalser » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 6:17 AM UTC

EMACS is my standard editor but I don't know what several of these things do. I'm open to my environment being improved but I'm not so into installing something when I don't know what it does. The site doesn't do much to explain what I'm installing or what it'll change about my current setup.

I actually setup a new computer yesterday. I copied my .emacs file and used ELPA to install js2Mode. This minimal setup probably heavily influences my lack of trust in installing what appears to be three or four different things all stuck together.

Note: http://emacs-bootstrap.com/#second, the init.el link leads to a 404.

Re: Show HN: Emacs-Bootstrap

#10

Post by rakanalh » Thu, Dec 01, 2016, 9:45 AM UTC

wwalser wrote: post #9

EMACS is my standard editor but I don't know what several of these things do. I'm open to my environment being improved but I'm not so into installing something when I don't know what it does. The site doesn't do much to explain what I'm installing or what it'll change about my current setup. I actually setup a new computer yesterday. I copied my .emacs file and used ELPA to install js2Mode. This minimal setup probab…

Thank you for the feedback. I guess i should have documented the files better. But that's definitely on the list.

I've fixed the link btw.