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!

  • vecksagos@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    to use asap emacs to programming, you will only need a lsp frontend, for example, eglot is now a built-in package, or lsp-mode, another lsp for emacs, if you configurate this package, you have a minimal ide on emacs.

    Then when you have time, you can search about a completion frontend, like company or corfu, then a theme for emacs, like modus-themes or doom-theme, then you can use a minibuffer ui, like vertico, ivy or helm and to use git, the package is magit.

    When you are familiar to emacs, you can see thing like, completion-at-point-functions, `completion-styles and begin to customizing emacs to your liking.