emacs-live

Seconded. I switched to Vim as my primary editor about two months ago. I remembered how much easier Emacs Live[0] had made my life when I was giving Emacs a serious go a little whole ago, and found a sorta-equivalent for Vim[1] which smoothed over a lot of the rough edges and put in some of the modern convenience an ST die-hard like me would expect (autocompletion, package management and what have you). That left one remaining barrier, which is the weirdness of modal editing; which is the important barrier, because the only reason you'd use vim is to sign up to the pre-eminent modal editor. Maybe, two new laptops from now, or one lonely weekend, I'll take a hacksaw to spf13 and strip out the bits I don't need. But for a shallow onramp experience, it's been a godsend. [0] https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live [1] https://github.com/spf13/

Here is a PR to fix this issue: https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live/pull/238 .

Being able to extend the browser with my own Elisp code turned out to be the hook for me; I'd encourage you to learn some Elisp right at the start. Also, I've had good luck with Emacs Live. http://github.com/overtone/emacs-live

I like this approach to package mgmt. https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live Even though it is "manual", i prefer stability of my programming environment over the ability to install packages "quickly".

There are a few that come to mind. 'Prelude'[1] and 'Graphene'[2] both serve as a sensible defaults for most folks. I had intended to link to the 'Emacs Starter Kit', but it seems that project has been abandoned... Additionally, 'EmacsLive' [3] focuses on Clojure support. [1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude [2] https://github.com/rdallasgray/graphene [3] https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live

I've heard good things about using emacs-live (https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live) to get you up and running quickly.

I just use emacs-live (https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live) with a few tweaks (https://github.com/jamii/emacs-live-packs) so most of the work is done by someone else.

Only at the first third and already delighted. He's moving between music, physics, programming in such a simple and pragmatic way, thanks for the bottom-up dynamic evaluation demonstration. Many many thanks. links aside, he uses (and is a project contributor) http://overtone.github.com/ ps: they also provide a nice emacs setup https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live