Re:Frontmacs
by cup-of-tea on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:04AM
(#16070015)
I put melpa in my init file and never thought about it again. You don't need to keep adding it every time.
For me, my emacs config is my text editor, and it works out of the box on any system I install it to. Emacs is often very easy to install, but if I'm going to spend significant time on a machine I'll build it myself, and then my config is a simple git clone away and that's it. I'm working in an exact copy of my own personal text editor that I've built up over many years.
My instances of emacs also stay running for weeks at a time. I'll edit the config while it's running. If it's useful I'll commit it and pull it to other instances and run the modifications on them while they're running. It's a completely different way to work than most people are used to and it's liberating.
Why not use melpa-stable?
Re:Frontmacs
by giancarlostoro on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:04PM
(#16072488)
That's what I use. The issue is in some builds of emacs on different OS' it cannot hit the HTTPS servers themselves for whatever reason.
I'm not sure what reason the emacs team has for just not adding MELPA but it would change the game for me if it were an official addition and would require it's addition to work out of the box. Till then, emacs is a long way away from being my default editor, and VS Code and JetBrains are more of my defaults.
Out of the box functionality is key for any editor in my opinion.