Emacs is the best. Thanks a lot for writing this up!
Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
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Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#92Systems like Emacs that are hyper-configurable via a text file seem tailor made for modern LLM's. If you've got a little bit of Emacs experience but bounced off of it because the learning curve was too steep I highly recommend diving back in with your agent. Agents are really good at setting up and maintaining your .emacs/init.el.
Doing this for Neovim at work and it’s so much fun. I justify the slopped config to myself because I want to get work done rather than learn the config of some random Neovim package and how it interacts with the rest of the system. I can just ask Claude, “make leader / toggle a terminal at the bottom of the screen , and leader t swaps it to the right side” and it’ll just do that. I liked a theme but I wanted it to al…
My .emacs.d has been carefully handcrafted over years. My .vim/.vimrc accreted over the same period, bits copied in, commented out, …
Claude did my neovim in about 45 seconds, with the instruction “make it work like my vimrc but better and using the cool new stuff” and it’s great! Not my daily driver, but serviceable as EDITOR and prettiest of the bunch.
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#93I am always a little bit puzzled with the versions. I use Emacs from Snap on Ubuntu.
I have to use the pgtk channel, because Wayland.
pgtk/stable is 30.2, pgtk/edge is 32.0.50. Version 31 is not even offered on snap, in none of the channels. I am running on edge (32.0.50) with no problems.
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#94Systems like Emacs that are hyper-configurable via a text file seem tailor made for modern LLM's. If you've got a little bit of Emacs experience but bounced off of it because the learning curve was too steep I highly recommend diving back in with your agent. Agents are really good at setting up and maintaining your .emacs/init.el.
Modern LLMs are ok with that, but they do make silly mistakes; and a major problem here is that your init.el stops being your own, if it’s written and maintained by an LLM, you will have no idea what’s going on there. And if you would be reviewing every single line of your init file, then what’s the point
That's a skillset any coder in 2026 pretty much has to pick up. If you don't understand the code an LLM writes for you for your day job then you're contaminating your employer's code base with slop. But if you don't use an LLM then you're not as valuable to your employer as you otherwise would be. So most of us need to figure out how to use an LLM and still understand the code.
Using an LLM on init.el is a lot easier than using it in your day job. A 2 line change that you told the LLM to make is easy to internalize.
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#9530.2 is as far as I am willing to go. Happy travels.
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#96Have they fixed MacOS startup performance yet? ISTR some post about why faster CPUs were making emacs even slower on startup. Seems to have gotten worse over the years.
You boot Emacs once as a server. Then you connect through that server through emacsclient. It is your OS after all.
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are just worrying for no good reason. Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are both very good; being far removed from vanilla emacs is not a problem to be worried about.
Both of those are modal editor configs. Which... No thanks?
Both Doom and Spacemacs work fine without the vi bindings.
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#98This stuff all looks great, I can't wait to upgrade to 31 and then forget about all of it and just keep using Emacs the same way I have been for the past 20 years, /again/
The post not long ago about how far the built in autocomplete has come got me to trim down a bit of my config. Seeing that treesit stuff is getting folded in, I may make another effort at trimming down.
It is crazy nice how invisible the native compilation became.
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#99This stuff all looks great, I can't wait to upgrade to 31 and then forget about all of it and just keep using Emacs the same way I have been for the past 20 years, /again/
LOL. So true! Except for tree-sitter. That's something I'll be investing time in.
Investing your time how exactly
Re: Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
#100If you do any kind of serious work, you need a text editor. Emacs is still one of the best around. It's fast. It's configurable. And it's under your control. You won't suddenly find your text editor "upgraded" with tons of new features you never asked for. It's all opt-in.