SMsmitty1e·Jul 10, 2026
Nice.
I'm going to go through https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs as well as https://www.masteringemacs.org/
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awesome-emacs
A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesAwesome Emacs – A community driven list of useful Emacs packages and libraries
5 points · Open discussionAwesome Emacs: a community-driven list of useful Emacs packages, etc.
1 points · Open discussion> Emacs are only for text, obviously.
I don't know if I missed something in your post, but this couldn't be further from the truth. It's cliche to refer to emacs as it's own OS, and it is not uncommon for users to do all of their computing inside of emacs - web browsing, email, note taking, documentation, writing, version control, terminal, ide, window manager, remote admin, etc. Based on your criteria emacs seems like a perfect fit, I encourage you take take a deeper look at emacs if you're interested.
https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs
In Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?> Is this a good project to start with?
Probably not. You'd be better off looking at an Emacs distribution to see what's available.
Sacha Chua's Visual Guide to Emacs is excellent.
http://sachachua.com/blog/series/a-visual-guide-to-emacs/
There's also an awesome list for it.
https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs
I'd suggest looking at Magit or Org-Mode. These are often cited as "killer features"/"gateway drugs" for Emacs.
> ... what's the equivalent of vim-plug ...
I liked the discussion on straight.el's readme:
https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/blob/develop/README....
In A community-driven port of Emacs to RustCommunity driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others
7 points · Open discussion