u/daviwilSystem Craftersin r/emacs • Recommends
Live Stream: Building a Custom Emacs Configuration from Scratch (9/11, 9:15 am PDT)
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Emacs From Scratch #1 - Getting Started with a Basic Usable Configuration
System Crafters
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- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2020 to 2024.
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- Linked in the descriptiondaviwil/runemacsdaviwil/dotfiles
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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Tools and practiceVim, Emacs and editorsThe shell and command line
David Wilson demonstrates how to build a custom Emacs configuration from scratch, covering basic setup, package management, and UI customization.
In this stream, we'll start creating a completely custom Emacs configuration from scratch! We'll also learn some Emacs basics along the way. Check out the configuration from this stream here: github.com/daviwil/runemacs/tree/3075158cae210060888001c0d76… My Emacs configuration: github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Emacs.org If you enjoy this series, please consider becoming a GitHub Sponsor: github.com/sponsors/daviwil Follow me on Twitter for more Emacs content! twitter.com/SystemCrafters Chat with the System Crafters community on Discord: discord.gg/yVD8Gx6 Intro music: Coriolis Effect by logos feat. stefsax, licensed CC-BY ccmixter.org/files/mseq/26296Why it's here
4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as an excellent step-by-step guide for beginners wanting to build their own Emacs configuration.
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tagfowufeon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Mastering Emacs: What's new in Emacs 29.1”
…er 5 hours of following it, you kinda get feature parity between his config and this; but in Berock's case it's done more natively which is really, really neat. I only miss some basic config with general.el. I feel super lucky to have started in Emacs when they finally added LSP and Treesitter support, and with System Crafters' help and yours! 0 link to this video…
BeetleBon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Why Emacs: Redux”
The Emacs From Scratch series on Youtube is actually quite good. He does have all his config in a Github repository if you need to copy/paste. This is the first video: link to this video
ParetoOptimalon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)”
Go through emacs from scratch: link to this video Try using that config 25% of your work/productive time for 1 month. Then if you are annoyed by how much time it takes try using doomemacs for the same 25% time. At the end of this you'll know if/which emacs approach is for you.
u/sebnanchasterin r/emacs • Mentions
Complete beginner, have some questions
Hi! I'm a complete beginner at Emacs (running on **Windows 11**) and just learning how to use it, so please excuse my ignorance. I understand some of the possibilities and what it can do, but I'm struggling with even some basic tutorials and have some questions. I understand some conceptual things, like buffers/windows/frames, kill ring, etc., but I don't really know how to start integrating Emacs into my workflow. I come from VS Code and other IDEs like it.
I began by skimming over this tutorial and these papers (1 and 2); however, when I try and use some of the macros they don't seem to work. For instance, if I try and use C-h r, Emacs reports "C…
u/Riffle_Xin r/emacs • Mentions
How to fix following Error error: Package ‘use-package-’ is unavailable ?
So I am following this tutorial [video and I have been receiving the error mentioned in the title. I tried searching it up to see if I could find any solutions and the only thing I could find suggested that I run the following command `M-x package-refresh-contents` which gave me a new error `Failed to download 'elpa' archive` I tried looking this error up online but I couldn't find a clear solution.
This is the config I am using
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(tooltip-mode -1) ; relegate tooltips to echo area only
(menu-bar-mode -1) ; disable the menu bar
(if (fbo…
u/irk5nilin r/C_Programming • Mentions
On “Which Linux IDE recommended.”
There's some pretty nice and recent "Emacs From Scratch" series on YouTube that might give you some ideas. I'd greatly recommend watching it.