Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy)

Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by kuehle on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:30PM (#33523872)

I moved from VSCode to Emacs with the help of Doom Emacs. You can check it out online. It’s a distribution and configuration management solution.

Generally people like to recommend writing your config from scratch but that didn’t work for me.

It comes with pretty much all you requested out of the box.

One thing I liked more than with the default Emacs setup is that I could “activate” support for a Language just by un-commenting a line in the well organized config.

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Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by ok_dad on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:35PM (#33523937)

Ooh, thanks! That sounds like something that will help me. I tend to do better when I can get something running like someone else has done in the past, then slowly tweak things as I learn more about it. My current VSCode setup and all my dotfiles have been slowly cribbed and edited from various sources who knew more than me about those things.

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Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by Quekid5 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:03PM (#33524259)

Seconded, Doom Emacs is such a huge QoL improvement over the DYI solution with a basic Emacs.

(I did use the upstream vanilla Emacs, but the pain of LSP support, etc. etc. was just too much until I tried Doom Emacs... and suddenly Emacs is usable again!)

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Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by ParetoOptimal on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:22PM (#33525632)

I used doom and spacemacs for many years before writing my own config from scratch.

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