I just recovered one minor setting from my pre-#spacemacs #emacs configuration.
Shift + click to select text:
;; select with shift + click
(global-set-key (kbd "S-<down-mouse-1>") #'mouse-set-mark)
Not usually needed, but good to have when you're copypasting from the editor to somewhere else.
People of Emacs and Org Mode:
Are there any packages to manage a project? I have projectile, but that's more for coding. I mean like a house move or fence build kinda project: something that has multiple todos and will take a protracted amount of time.
Failing any specific package for that, what about a org template for said project?
TYIA
#emacs #org #orgMode #GNUEmacs #doomemacs #spacemacs #ProjectPlanning #GTD
I've had many Take Two moments with #emacs. From trying out #vi emulation that led to try #spacemacs to my bespoke configuration. I think I may blog about meow, my tempting new #taketwo.
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/06/emacs-carnival-2025-06-take-two/
I have decided I'm going to try and make a minimal Emacs setup from scratch rather than use Spacemacs following @daviwil videos "Emacs from Scratch". He brings in a lot of the functionality I like from Spacemacs so this will probably be better.
It should also help me read up on using Orgmode and not worrying about the keycombos (although as advised, I have started using M-x a lot more).
Spent a good couple of hours trying to get my head around Org Mode again. I think I can use it to get organised with work and (HR willing) my upcoming Software Development course. If I can get my head round it, I might even treat myself to the new @frameworkcomputer 12 computer.
It's a shame most of the tutorials are 3-6 years old. Hard to find something that teaches Spacemacs and Org Mode that's not so old most of the key bindings and settings have changed.
Me está cayendo mejor #spacemacs que la mayoría de las personas
@asltf Overall I find lazyvim to provide a more feature rich start than spacemacs but expect things to break quite often. #spacemacs #lazyvim
I've been using #Emacs for the last couple of months now for all my daily work (I'm a translator, not a programmer) and here's a thought.
Of course, I stumbled upon rather contrasting recommendations:
1) Don't use vanilla, use #DoomEmacs or #Spacemacs. Preferably Doom. Well, I tried this in the past, but it didn't stick. It''s everything and the kitchen sink, but you generally don't know if you really need all this. So you study Doom, not Emacs. I might get back to it in the future. I did prefer Spacemacs, though (aesthetically).
2) Use vanilla and spend ten years building your own config. This sounds fairly reasonable, because you naturally learn the program itself, not its plugins. But it's a huge timesink when you start to "build your own Emacs". So you'd end up with DoomEmacs, but badly written, slow and constantly breaking on every update.
I went with the second alternative and here's what I got for my personal usecase:
me@desktop:~$ grep "use-package" .emacs.d/init.el | wc -l
8
Eight packages. howm, inkpot-theme, which-key, avy, counsel, general, annotate, markdown-mode. I didn't even bother to make annotate work for now, so it's 7. And I don't really use avy, so it could be 6.
That's all I need for now. For several months I haven't had a moment yet when I thought that I need something else or that my workflow is getting somewhat cumbersome.
Of course, this doesn't mean that my setup is perfect. But my point is: configuring your own Emacs could be way easier than you might think (depending on the workflow), and you probably don't need to fight a bazillion packages waging civil war in your config file.
Gestión de proyectos en Spacemacs
https://picandocodigo.net/2025/gestion-de-proyectos-en-spacemacs/
Gestión de proyectos en Spacemacs
https://picandocodigo.net/2025/gestion-de-proyectos-en-spacemacs/
Look at my #emacs / #spacemacs , lol.
@tymoty vanilla emacs může být složitá na nějaké prvotní konfigurace, podívej se na #doomemacs nebo #spacemacs - dostaneš předkonfigurovaný setup podobný klasickým IDE. Je tam i evil mod pro lidi co přichází z vim.
https://docs.doomemacs.org/
https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
@federicomena I'm reading your enthousiasm and wonder if I could ask for some advice on where to start learning #emacs? I intend to use it mainly for #LaTeX work, which I "know" for 25 years now. I've been told about #Spacemacs but I found it very confusing. I've seen interesting things with #orgmode too.
@jayalane @ams I would still rather see a set of more standard compliant key bindings. CUA mode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CuaMode just isn't good enough, and doesn't even support things like Shift-Ins. It's enough to make me consider mousemacs https://github.com/seamus-brady/mousemacs.
Most modern programmer's editors and IDE's support loading in key bindings from a file. The way Emacs works that would be tricky. I suppose that's why #ExtensibleVILayer and #SpaceMacs are more like projects than property files.
What emacs distro/config are you running?
Testing Spacemacs!
I sorta kinda prefer #doomemacs modules setup and I've muscle memory for #spacemacs keybindings.
#1stworldproblems
He cambiado de Doom Emacs a Spacemacs. No recuerdo por qué hice el camino inverso hace años pero #Spacemacs me resulta especialmente sencillo e intuitivo.
@profoundlynerdy Welcome to this great (and potentially large) rabbit hole. 😉
As a daily vim+Emacs user for decades, you probably won't agree with me (right from you system 1 reaction) when I tell you that Emacs + Org-mode are totally different tools you most probably will never have with vim (or anywhere else).
I'm using #vim + #Emacs - both - with their native bindings. I'd really recommend you to try Emacs - optionally with vim bindings (there are more than one option). #Spacemacs seems to be popular as a modern configuration starterpack.
For #Orgmode, I've written many articles. That's my starting point:
https://karl-voit.at/orgmode/
Trust me: in the long run, it's worth any switching effort. You'll get a trusted, flexible #PIM companion for many decades. And you can use vim for normal editing tasks in parallel, like I do. 😉
Cómo empezar con Emacs: Distribuciones
La experiencia inicial para quienes prueban Emacs por primera vez puede ser un poco intimidante. Una posible alternativa para facilitar el proceso: distribuciones.
https://picandocodigo.net/2020/como-empezar-con-emacs-distribuciones/
