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Virtualized Emacs as an IDE

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Tools and practiceSystems programmingVim, Emacs and editorsLinux

Adrien Brochard demonstrates how to combine Emacs and Linux into a virtualized IDE to automate development environments across machines.

Adrien Brochard demonstrates a different way to Emacs: combining Emacs and Linux as a virtualized IDE to work on any machine. It includes a collection of bash script that automates the build of a dev environment and a set of literate Emacs config files which takes care of replicating packages and settings. And if we're lucky all of this will build in less time than he needs to read through the code! Learn more from the developers at thoughtbot ⌨️ Head over to tbot.io/dev-blog to read more great articles on our blog.

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What people say. Recommended as an interesting approach to running a consistent Emacs development environment via virtualization.

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Virtualized Emacs as an IDE on Windows For those like myself that require to work on Windows, here is another solution that may work for you. Myself, for full compatibility for packages that I often use, I run Emacs on a Lubuntu installation through Virtualbox, sharing a folder between guest and host OS. Virtualized Emacs as an IDE