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!

    • Horrih@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is the way, for basic IDE features it should be enough.

      Treemacs is also useful if you are used to having a left menu to navigate your project files with the mouse like in most IDE

      Anything more is about personal preference an customizing your emacs experience.

      In this regard, installing a color theme could help you feel at home, for example this one is a dark mode reusing vs code’s colors : https://github.com/ianyepan/vscode-dark-plus-emacs-theme

      • abbreviatedman@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Good call on Treemacs. Few long-term or even medium-term Emacs users use it, because it’s not actually an efficient workflow, but it can ease the transition.

        Heck, I have it installed just for when someone’s looking over my shoulder and I want them to follow along better!

        There’s something to be said for easing folks in with idioms they’re used to, before they find the more powerful idioms on their own.