PMpmoriarty·Sep 30, 2020Submission
el-patch – Future-proof your Emacs Lisp customizations
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el-patch
Emacs Lisp2017–2021
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el-patch
✨ Future-proof your Emacs Lisp customizations!
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✨ Future-proof your Emacs Lisp customizations!
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI would suggest a step further: start with Spacemacs/Doom, but if you decide to stick around, try to build your own Emacs configuration based on the part of Spacemacs/Doom that you like.
Thanks to the amazing use-package[1] macro (which Spacemacs/Doom also uses) most configurations are self-contained to a certain extent. Searching for use-package in GitHub[2] will yields plenty of results which can be mostly be taken as a reference for your own liking. It should be relatively easy to port part of Spacemacs/Doom to vanilla use-package, e.g. starting with this (which sets up use-package alongside with evil):
(require 'package)
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
(package-refre
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(package-install 'use-package))
(eval-when-compile
(require 'use-package))
(use-package evil
:ensure t
:config
(evil-mode t)
(use-package evil-leader
:after evil
:ensure t
:config
(evil-leader/set-leader "<SPC>")
(global-evil-leader-mode t))
To add Magit, one could take a look at Spacemacs's git/packages.el[2], search documentation on what each package does, and proceed on porting configuration, only the part that you actually uses, e.g.:
(use-package evil-magit
:ensure t
:after (magit evil))
(use-package magit
:ensure t
:config
(evil-leader/set-key ("gs" #'magit-status))
Since most configurations based on use-package are self-contained, when stuck I also like to use GitHub search to look on how other people configure a certain package[3]. In most cases the configuration should be reusable as-is.
Finally, use-package is highly extensible. There is straight.el[4] which adds extension to use-package to fetch from Git and pin a version in a lockfile, which adds reproducibility to Emacs configuration. There's also el-patch[5] from the same author that allows patching package on the fly without the need to maintain separate forks.
[1]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
[2]: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/d46eacd83842815b2...
[3]: https://github.com/search?l=Emacs+Lisp&p=4&q=use-package&typ...
[4]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
[5]: https://github.com/raxod502/el-patch