How does Emacs (and most addons) run on Windows?
I'm tempted to try it out, but knowing the community is (righteously) Unix-fist I'm not so sure it's worth the trouble.
Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
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Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#32If you’re running emacs 29+ I posit you get less value out of a starter kit or framework than beforehand. Treesitter is baked in for syntax, eglot is baked in for language servers (intellisense), project and tab-bar give you scoped workspaces. use-package is baked in for downloading and configuring dependencies. Modus-themes are also built in now, so you can use modus-operandi and modus-vivendi out of the box. Two in…
I've just moved to emacs 29 and was able to remove half of the stuff I had from my init file! Specially using eglot instead of buggy and ugly lsp-ui made a lot of difference. eglot does things the emacs way, not the vs-code ripoff that is lsp-ui, and it is much easier to setup.
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#33How does Emacs (and most addons) run on Windows? I'm tempted to try it out, but knowing the community is (righteously) Unix-fist I'm not so sure it's worth the trouble.
I am trying to learn and use Emacs, but I am not an expert.
Surprisingly, Emacs 29 runs very good on Windows. I am happy with eshell, dired, trying to use emacs more for some simple tasks. I am experimenting with sharing emacs init.el configuration via local git + symlinks between 3 machines: 2 Windows and 1 Linux. Package configuration is challenging; sometimes, it works on Windows but breaks on Linux. Only nyan-cat never caused any issues ;)
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#34How does Emacs (and most addons) run on Windows? I'm tempted to try it out, but knowing the community is (righteously) Unix-fist I'm not so sure it's worth the trouble.
I own no windows machines but afaik it should run OK on windows. Emacs is a pretty good application platform that glosses over lots of OS inconsistencies. :)
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#35bbatsov's prelude is another nice kit to get started with and learn from: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/
I’ve been running this on one of my desktops in an effort to wean myself from spacemacs and doom. I generally like it but the one thing I’m really missing is the spacebar concept from spacemacs / doom. Anyone know a way to shoehorn that in? Or any tips for how to do without it?
I can vouch for general.el[1]. It's easy to use and it integrates with use-package clauses, which-key and evil states. You can look at my config[2] for examples.
1. https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
2. https://github.com/gekoke/dotfiles/blob/main/modules/program...
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#36How does Emacs (and most addons) run on Windows? I'm tempted to try it out, but knowing the community is (righteously) Unix-fist I'm not so sure it's worth the trouble.
I own no windows machines but afaik it should run OK on windows. Emacs is a pretty good application platform that glosses over lots of OS inconsistencies. :)
I heard that some addons (like magit and vterm) run much worse on Windows than on Unix-like. That's my main concern. Maybe it's an outdated view tho.
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#37bbatsov's prelude is another nice kit to get started with and learn from: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/
I’ve been running this on one of my desktops in an effort to wean myself from spacemacs and doom. I generally like it but the one thing I’m really missing is the spacebar concept from spacemacs / doom. Anyone know a way to shoehorn that in? Or any tips for how to do without it?
As another commenter pointed out, what you're probably looking for is general.el: https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#38bbatsov's prelude is another nice kit to get started with and learn from: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/
I'm a casual emacs user for 30 years. Decided to give prelude a try after reading this... 2 minutes in: "" keybinding is discouraged! Use instead." Ok, well, then. Time to uninstall.
I used to have my own (rather extensive) config, and switched to prelude a bit more than a year ago. I think the whole key to prelude is that it promotes useful packages, with an eye on beginners. I did change a whole bunch of things, but there's less I need to get rid of in prelude (like disabling guru-mode, what you mention - too patronising for me) than I'd have to add to vanilla Emacs, so I stuck with it. I can recommend investing some time and giving it a chance - I think most people won't be entirely happy if they just go for the out of the box behaviour.
My additions/removals are just a few lines now and I find the whole setup a lot more maintainable than rolling my own: https://github.com/fhd/prelude/tree/personal/personal
But yeah, all I can say is that it works for me (with a little investment), YMMV.
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I own no windows machines but afaik it should run OK on windows. Emacs is a pretty good application platform that glosses over lots of OS inconsistencies. :)
I heard that some addons (like magit and vterm) run much worse on Windows than on Unix-like. That's my main concern. Maybe it's an outdated view tho.
The big issue here is that spawning processes is (was?) much slower on windows. There’s also wsl2 where I think Emacs will work fine.
Re: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
#40I have switched last year from custom configuration to Doom Emacs. I liked the framework, but over time, I think this makes me rely on external people too much and some of the stuff is too overengineered (but the good design makes it easy to tweak). I would prefer to keep things lean and I am pondering using Doom Emacs without any builtin modules as the framework itself is very good.
I have looked at other starter kits to find leaner things, but they don't seem to bring much to seasoned Emacs users like me.