Hey so what the fuck's going on with #Spacemacs? https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/commit/6043d1a231f6b07c7029b28a3e2e791ff881ad3e

Frustrated with how #spacemacs has kept kicking me in the shins with packages after upgrades (either of #emacs or spacemacs itself).

Giving a try to #DoomEmacs now.

Let's see how that puppy works.

What's your terminal based editor on Linux/Unix? If it's not listed here, please comment!

#tui #terminal #Linux #unix #editor #ide #vim #vi #neovim #Emacs #spacemacs #nano

'Scuse the mess. I've got CS50 notes and LoFi Girl music mirrored on the TV, writing in org Roam in Spacemacs on my Linux Framework12 and a pomo going.

What other geek nonsense am I missing? 🤣

#CS50 #OrgRoam #Emacs #Spacemacs #programming #LoFiGirl #framework12 #Linux

Spent some time today going through the Spacemacs documentation. My hand made config wasn't getting anywhere and kept throwing up errors, so I think (at least for now), I'll run a spacemacs config, it has most of the features I want.

I *need* to get it sorted by next week, when I'll finally be given the green flag on my apprenticeship. I'll be using orgmode to make notes and (I hope) as IDE for my chosen language.

#emacs #spacemacs #orgMode #apprenticeship

@schuemaa Downside of #nvim is that things break constantly. It is too fast moving for my taste. I used it with #lazyvim so that might be the main problem. Emacs has #spacemacs and I almost never need to do config changes, etc. after updates.

@jorgen #emacs great, and yeah balance in the office is crucial. I don't know if you're a big vi/vim fan, but I hear a lot of good things about #spacemacs (a vi-focused distribution of Emacs).

God damn it. I've really fallen down the #Neovim rabbit hole. This feels like when I started my two year fling with with #Spacemacs.

It will probably end the same way. I'll find some edge case that annoys me enough that I go running back to Nova and PyCharm* rather than banging my head against config files.

*Really anything but VSCode.

I tried Spacemacs a few years ago...it seemed a little unstable at the time. I had it lock up on a few times randomly. I switched it for doom emacs. Well I tried Spacemacs again, and it actually rocks! They are really working hard at making evil well integrated into Emacs. Maybe give spacemacs a shot! #spacemacs #emacs

Apparently evil-mode and visual-line-mode can work together! You just have to (setq evil-respect-visual-line-mode t) before evil is loaded!

For years, I've wanted this in org-mode! I just assumed that it was a bug that evil-mode could not work with visual line mode! Please tell me I'm not the only person who didn't know this! What else do I not know about Emacs? What's your best Emacs tip? #emacs #spacemacs

@Zenie @joao_et_al
My opinion is that it's way better to start learning from sane defaults. Also, a wizard can easily show you what you can change and how.

I've used #Emacs for years through #Spacemacs framework and I still like it. Slowly I learn more and more about Elisp and other things when using it. I don't think it would be a bad thing if someone offered a wizard that creates a similar experience as one gets when following the guidance of #SystemCrafters

I started migrating to a new company laptop. As expected, moving all dev setup was a breeze thanks to #NixOS.

Setting up my mouse was a pain. For whatever reason, #Logitech G HUB detected my mouse inactive until I allowed it in Screen & System Audio Recording. I also needed to re-set my macros (screen left/right).

Next one was #spacemacs. I decided to try #doomemacs, and was fighting a lot installing emacs in a proper way on MacOS. What eventually worked was this:
```
brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus
brew install emacs-plus
ln -s /usr/local/opt/emacs-plus/Emacs.app /Applications/Emacs.app
```

After having my failed Doom installation in ~/.config/doom.

EDIT: just did this again, and I had to use ~/.emacs.d, which is mentioned in doomemacs' Getting Started section, but not in the main README.

Then, doom install, doom sync, and it should work.

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).

#emacs #spacemacs #orgMode

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.

#spacemacs #orgMode #emacs

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.