Post #4199213
2026-07-29 13:17 UTC
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@zzt@mas.to 2026-07-29 13:23
@jpaskaruk@growers.social the readme at https://github.com/doomemacs/core is a pretty good intro! you pretty much install a recent emacs, clone their config into your home directory, run one command, and it boots up. config distros like these are very reconfigurable so you can layer your own lisp on top of theirs fairly easily, so long as you use their recommended mechanisms (all of which are a fair bit easier than the emacs defaults). you also get elisp native compilation and JIT for free. spacemacs is older and slower, but it might be a little easier to start with: https://www.spacemacs.org/ a lot of what’s in Doom Emacs (IE using the spacebar as the main interaction key) was inspired by spacemacs, and it still has better documentation sometimes emacs is also self-documenting, so you can eventually ask it what a key combo does, and both the config distros include pop-up help too. of course the docs are derived from Lisp comment blocks so quality varies but sometimes it’s pretty good