I have recently approached the world of Emacs, which I find great… The problem though is that I feel I’m wasting too much time trying to have it running in order to do the real work (and I’ve seen, there are several memes about it), so I was wondering what are the must-have extensions to quickly fire something functional (similar to vscode… Don’t make me get back to that please) for development.

By the way, I’ve seen several configurations scattered around the web, and something tells me that I’ve ended up in another anarchic realm (which is, something I both hate and love), as if that of distros -being the same except for one thing- wasn’t enough.

Of interest are: Python, Go, Bash, Clojure, Elixir, yaml (Docker, Terraform, Ansible), json, csv

I would also appreciate the general must-have extensions, currently I’m getting lost navigating Doom Emacs and Melpa packages.

Thank you!

  • t8rn8ralig8r@fediverser.communick.devBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I agree with the others who say that your philosophy toward text editors probably isn’t right for Emacs, but here’s my experience:

    I love this repo (https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs). It has many of the most popular Emacs packages presented in an organized way. Just start with the packages that catch your eye until you get Emacs working the way you want. They’re loosely presented in an order that aids discovery.