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Re: My Emacs eye candy

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Post by imiric »

jcadam wrote: post #24
all2 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spacemacs has decent defaults, is easily extendable, and looks pretty good too.

Yea, I used to maintain a fairly complicated emacs config that I was never quite happy with. Nowadays, I just go with spacemacs. Tired of messing with stuff :)

I went the opposite way. Used Spacemacs to introduce me to Emacs, and then got rid of it once I got the hang of things, and noticed all the extra packages I don't need that were just impacting (the already poor) Emacs performance.

A few years later, I'm still using my config and wouldn't go back. It's what allows me to make Emacs _mine_, after all. It requires a minimal amount of maintenance, mostly whenever I decide to upgrade the packages.

Re: My Emacs eye candy

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Post by lordgrenville »

lenkite wrote: post #32
Barrin92 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can try Doom Emacs if you want a solid starting point. ( https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ). Emacs is so idiosyncratic compared to a lot of modern stuff people are used to, starting with a base like this may be a little easier than trying to do it from the ground up.

Whats the difference between Doom emacs and spacemacs ?

Much faster startup time, for one.

Re: My Emacs eye candy

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Post by llasse »

tincholio wrote: post #26

Without meaning any offense to the OP, I think this is a pretty low bar for Emacs eye-candy... Nicolas Rougier's "Nano Emacs" [0], or his previous "Elegant Emacs" [1] are better examples. You can also get pretty far using variable-pitch mode for mixing fonts (for example in org-mode [2]). [0]: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs [1]: https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs [2]: https://github.com/minad/org-modern

Especially regarding org mode I am always surprised about how most users use so little typography. Using the same settings for writing and coding seems counterintuitive yet most org modes I see in screenshots look pretty code-editorisch to me, and the styling options you mentioned are pretty much the only ones I know (missing Olivietti mode [1]) Most other note taking apps surpass here… [1] https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti

Re: My Emacs eye candy

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Post by zelphirkalt »

moi2388 wrote: post #28

I always come back to eMacs at least once a year, fall in love with some of the functionality, then rediscover that every package only works for 80% of my use cases and requires extensive configuration, and after spending hours customising it I have a slightly inferior product to any other IDE because a) some things still don’t work and b) nobody works with eMacs, so there is zero interop. Too bad..

I work with Emacs. I also find that magit and org mode are great examples of doing things better than other tools. Biffer management is another thing. I find it to be superior to handling tabs. vterm and shell are also incredibly helpful. vterm for when you need ncurses or self updating output, shell when you do not and want to easily copy paste from output. Vterm can copy paste too but needs a key combination to switch between modes.

There is at least editorconfig for sharing config with other editors a little.

Re: My Emacs eye candy

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Post by a_e_k »

tetris11 wrote: post #39
fishbacon wrote: post #36

My emacs setup is pretty much eye candy free. I remove scrollbars and menus because I never use the mouse and mode-line linenumber and % of file is usually fine. Zone seems like fun, but I would never activate it.

Do not underestimate the usefulness of the context-based menu bar. It will save you an apropos on many occasion, and open your mind to new actions that you missed on the first skim of the package methods.

If you've turned off the main menu bar, it becomes available as a popup with ctrl right-click.

(I too turn off the menu bar, but it's really helpful for accessing some of the more obscure operations in Calc.)

Re: My Emacs eye candy

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Post by thom »

I’ve turned off nearly everything in my Emacs. Fullscreen, no scrollbars, minimal frame borders, modeline hidden. My only sadness is that you can’t completely reclaim the echo area when it’s not in use. But one thing this has always helped me ensure is that if I want something, I learn how to go there, directly. No scrolling around and rummaging.

Re: My Emacs eye candy

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Post by 3836293648 »

illiarian wrote: post #30
3836293648 wrote: post #9

The linked theme looks nothing like the screenshots

He did say "a bunch of tweaks". 150 lines of tweaks for the theme alone: https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/blob/790465b1824481b81bf...

I tried the tweaks too. It still looks nothing like it
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