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…pasting (or using AI) to cobble things together. I think bedrock is reasonable, and so is Prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ). I used to have a sprawling init.el, but these days is pretty compact (236 lines), mostly using…

comment by rpdillon · 2026-06-18 · in Emacs, how it all started for me

…[1] Cider, a clojure mode https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider [2] Prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by riffraff · 2026-03-02 · in Neocaml – Rubocop Creator's New OCaml Mode for Emacs

…this was 7 years ago so there may be better options than prelude to do something similar today. [1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by facundo_olano · 2025-11-02 · in Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?

…I forked it on GitHub, stared personalizing, and then merging/rebasing upstream at my own leisure. https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/ From 2011 to present, not everyone in the Emacs community feels…

comment by michaelsbradley · 2024-01-06 · in 2024-01-01 Emacs News

…and learning/appreciating the differrnces between the two will make you a better lisp programmer. https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/blob/master/core/prelude-...

comment by medo-bear · 2023-11-08 · in Ask HN: Does anyone Lisp without Emacs?

bbatsov's prelude is another nice kit to get started with and learn from: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/

comment by michaelsbradley · 2023-09-05 · in Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit

You might find prelude worth a look: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude#readme

comment by michaelsbradley · 2022-07-06 · in Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet

Maybe give https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude a look too, if you haven't already. It's a bit more minimalistic, while providing a rock solid base on which to build.

comment by michaelsbradley · 2022-04-19 · in Clojure and Doom Emacs on a brand new M1 computer

…post, and I've been contemplating using it to start over with my very chaotic Emacs configuration. https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude The list of features: * Improved UX, that's still in line with Emacs traditions * Sane defaults of…

comment by macintux · 2022-04-19 · in Show HN: Emacs Configuration Generator

…or "distribution" of Emacs, used to disable the menu-bar by default as recently as a year ago: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/commit/878cffb

comment by drothlis · 2022-01-20 · in Bad Emacs Advice

…of vim style modal editing, Spacemacs [2] and Doom [3] are two popular emacs "distributions". [1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude [2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs [3] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

comment by alex_smart · 2021-11-17 · in Why Emacs: Redux

Prelude is a nice lightweight config for emacs. https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by tharne · 2021-09-30 · in Org Mode 9.5

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by dragandj · 2020-09-25 · in Toward a “modern” Emacs

…work, at the risk of a more occluded understanding of emacs per se. I'd put in a word for Prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ) as a possible compromise, making emacs immediately usable but without putting many layers between you…

comment by crispinb · 2020-04-15 · in Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?

…understanding lisp, you will not want to go back. [1] https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy [2] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude [3] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

comment by dragonsh · 2019-08-29 · in Emacs 26.3

…I can quickly make changes if there's something causing friction. A nice happy medium is Prelude -- https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude It's big, but probably not too big to understand and jump in and tweak. I still prefer my own…

comment by vector_spaces · 2019-04-12 · in Emacs 26.2 Released

…It's got a lot of good pre-selected choices, and almost no bad ones. I can highly recommend it. [0] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by eadmund · 2018-03-15 · in Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment

…incompatible pieces of software replacing parts of Org mode is itself pretty revealing. [0] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by zeveb · 2018-03-09 · in After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs

…I have a consistent environment for most languages and I am able to make small tweaks on top. [0]: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by johnbellone · 2018-01-04 · in Frontmacs

…now, and Smartparens (per prelude's config) has always behaved for me like a better ParEdit. [+] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by michaelsbradley · 2017-12-09 · in Lisp at the Frontier of Computation [video]

…I avoided starting w/Spacemacs or Prelude defaults but you may want them https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude Emacs you'll find most productive if you live in it, so aside from development where you get your SQLI shell or whatever, a

comment by hackermailman · 2017-10-26 · in Ask HN: Would you recommend someone to learn Emacs now?

…I used to recently, but here's the basic setup I use: 1) Emacs prelude w/ helm enabled everywhere - https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude 2) Irony-mode for auto completion. Since you're using Cmake, you can just add…

comment by hendzen · 2017-05-12 · in CPU Utilization is Wrong

I finally got into emacs using the prelude distribution - https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude It has sane defaults and contextual tips that help when you're getting started (and can turn off later).

comment by leef · 2017-04-22 · in Emacs 25.2 released

You're right that emacs without any config is annoying. Check out Prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude); it's a really nice set of defaults for emacs. I think emacs is the modern editor in its own spirit: none of the imitations…

comment by wtbob · 2017-04-21 · in Tmux and Vim – better together

…even emacs), it'd be a consistent high-quality default user experience. FWIW I find both Prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ) and Spacemacs ( http://spacemacs.org/ ) to offer pretty out-of-the-box experiences.

comment by wtbob · 2017-04-21 · in Tmux and Vim – better together

It's not really a guide, but I strongly recommend newcomers take a look at emacs prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ), which is a really good starter kit. I recommend turning guru-mode off (AFAICT its only use is to holler at you…

comment by zeveb · 2016-12-15 · in How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

…using Emacs for 20 years now, and for the last few years I've trusted most of my setup to Prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ). It does a LOT of the tedious setup work most emacs pros would do for themselves. After that, I just…

comment by nosequel · 2016-09-17 · in Emacs 25.1 released

…there can't be much substance to it. > to a preconfigured web based IDE Check out emacs prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ): it's a great some of mostly-sane emacs defaults in one easy-to-use package. Heck, emacs out of the box…

comment by zeveb · 2016-07-14 · in Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

I used Emacs Live for quite some time. Then tried https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude because I couldn't get Emacs Live work with the most recent CIDER (clojure environment). I have been using that ever since.

comment by Borkdude · 2016-06-22 · in Emacs Live (2013)

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude or if you know/like Vim: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

comment by bolivier · 2016-03-31 · in Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

…poor usage of git, and poor directory layout. [1] https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh [2] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by zeveb · 2016-03-08 · in CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs

…you should totally start with @bbatsov's Emacs Prelude[2]. [1] https://github.com/bodil/emacs.d [2] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by pcx · 2015-05-23 · in Mastering Emacs

…[1] http://emacsthemes.caisah.info/zenburn-theme/ [&] https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs [2] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by michaelsbradley · 2015-04-21 · in Show HN: Emacs Theme Creator

…a solid "foundational config" for getting started with an editor that is configurable to the max: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude I installed an earlier version of it 3+ years ago and then worked through the standard tutorial a couple…

comment by michaelsbradley · 2014-12-18 · in “Mastering Emacs” ebook announced

…there's a fair amount of uncertainty about what packages one should install, and that projects like https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude are really helpful in this regard.

comment by conistonwater · 2014-12-06 · in Emacs isn't for everyone (2010)

…from scratch. Probably if you do not have proper Elisp learning, you should use Prelude: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude . Everything is configured for you and packages are downloaded automatically. This is the easy way. Put your…

comment by tuhdo · 2014-11-17 · in Emacs Rocks

…Emacs these days everything is already done for you: - Prelude (for those who want to learn Emacs): https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude - Spacemacs (for long time Vim users): https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

comment by tuhdo · 2014-11-17 · in Emacs Rocks

Bozhidar Batsov's Emacs Prelude is also worthy of study: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude That is, even if you didn't want to use it outright for your config, prelude's init.el and modules are a good resource for learning how to wire…

comment by michaelsbradley · 2014-11-16 · in Emacs Rocks

Prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ) has a pretty nice set of basic dotfiles. I find that Emacs with Prelude is much more fun to use than vanilla Emacs.

comment by MichaelDickens · 2014-11-10 · in Towards a Vim-like Emacs

…improvements committed to the author's repository. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp [2] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by michaelsbradley · 2014-09-25 · in From Vim to Emacs

You can use the popular Emacs Prelude: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude . It's an Emacs setup that improves the original Emacs. The author is also a ROR developer, so he sure knows how to configure it properly. To learn the basics of…

comment by tuhdo · 2014-08-25 · in Show HN: C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs

…anyone?) and I seldom see people sharing the same config except maybe Bozhidar's Emacs prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by hiker · 2014-08-19 · in Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

emacs-prelude is a nice way to get started with emacs if you are a vim user: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude You can enable the prelude-evil.el module and start out with a nice set of bindings. It would be sweet if there were some more…

comment by rorykirchner · 2014-07-25 · in Emacs and Vim

…a nice set of org-mode bindings for evil-mode in the prelude-evil.el module that helps quite a bit: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/blob/master/modules/prelu...

comment by rorykirchner · 2014-07-25 · in Emacs and Vim

Well, I'd suggest if you know nothing about Emacs to install Emacs Prelude: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude Next, enable the lisp/scheme modules in prelude-modules.el [1]. You need the Evil plugin to get Vim modal editing and probably…

comment by laichzeit0 · 2014-04-16 · in A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket

How about prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ?

comment by welldan97 · 2014-03-13 · in Emacs is Sexy

…cool guys program in Go now, don’t they?" Way too opinionated for my tastes, I'll stick to using https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude with a few custom settings. Optional packages should be the way to go for these configuration bundles.

comment by jeremiep · 2013-12-20 · in Emacs My Way

…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

comment by stevenrace · 2013-12-09 · in Most frequently enabled Emacs packages

…mode. All in all, awesome project, and thanks so much for all the work you've put into it! [1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

comment by alexhutcheson · 2013-10-15 · in Web-mode.el – an Emacs major mode for editing HTML templates

…budding Clojure programmer in early 2012, I benefited greatly from Bozhidar Batsov's Emacs Prelude: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude I highly recommend it, and have been very pleased to see it get better and better over the past year+.

comment by michaelsbradley · 2013-09-03 · in Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners