Emacs From Scratch #1 - Getting Started with a Basic Usable Configuration
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a thoughtful, step-by-step way to build your own Emacs config rather than starting from Doom or Spacemacs.
What it is
The first stream in the Emacs From Scratch series, building a custom Emacs configuration from zero while teaching basics. It covers a usable baseline setup and the packages for completion, themes and productivity.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2021 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec tagfowufe · 2023-09 · on “Mastering Emacs: What's new in Emacs 29.1”
It's incredibly useful to me. I love it. I find it nicely curated and true to the word 'starter' (kit). If I knew more about Emacs, this is definitely what I would have created, and in a similar manner. It's that lil' layer of configuration that's missing that makes the first clash with emacs sane. I like the structure. I also like the fact that there's a 'researcher' mixin. Would absolutely love to see your opinionated inclusion of org-roam, and general.el. I recently dabbled into System Crafters' 'Emacs from Sratch' series [0], which is incredibly well thought-out. After 5 hours of following it, you kinda get feature parity between his config and this; but in Berock's case it's done more n
Recommends BeetleB · 2021-11 · on “Why Emacs: Redux”
The Emacs From Scratch series on Youtube is actually quite good. He does have all his config in a Github repository if you need to copy/paste. This is the first video: [this video]
Recommends ParetoOptimal · 2024-04 · on “Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)”
Go through emacs from scratch: [this video] Try using that config 25% of your work/productive time for 1 month. Then if you are annoyed by how much time it takes try using doomemacs for the same 25% time. At the end of this you'll know if/which emacs approach is for you.