A basic yet fully capable setup for GNU Emacs. It covers all the essentials.
  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    why? does init.el have any advantage over .emacs?

    Presumably because of the very next point, #2: “Put all auto-generated configurations in a separate file.” If you’re going to use more than one config file, then that means you need to go with the .emacs.d directory route.

    • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
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      1 month ago

      do you? you can set a different custom file from .emacs just fine and i’ve seen it done before. unless i’m missing something, i believe that’s not it

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I’m far from an Emacs expert. If you say so, I believe you.

        One reason I do it is because I made ~/.emacs.d a git repo.

        • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
          1·
          1 month ago

          I made ~/.emacs.d a git repo.

          ooh, interesting. though i’m a bit squeamish about mixing tracked content and “build artifacts” (in this case, installed packages).

          • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
            3·
            1 month ago
            $ cat ~/.emacs.d/.gitignore 
/auto-save-list/
/elpa/
/init.el~
/transient
/org-roam.db
/.org-id-locations
$