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minimal-emacs.d - Emacs init.el and early-init.el for Better Defaults and Optimized Startup, intended to serve as a solid foundation for your vanilla Emacs configuration | Emacs Starter Kit

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2024-08-12 · latest 2026-09-08

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  1. Was a user of Bedrock for quite a while. Have switched to minimal-emacs.d ( https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d ) since and find that it suits my tastes a lot better.
    comment by mih · 2026-09-08 · in Emacs Bedrock 2.0
  2. Good recommendation, you (the reader) may also like https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d
    comment by BoingBoomTschak · 2026-06-19 · in Emacs, how it all started for me
  3. …elisp. I'm a fan of the `helpful` package which I find to be a better version of `describe`. [1]: https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d [2]: https://systemcrafters.net [3]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/
    comment by Karrot_Kream · 2025-11-01 · in Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?
  4. https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d is a great starting point for owning your config. On macOS: Install from emacs-plus in Homebrew On Linux: Install from your distro’s pkg manager.
    comment by uutangohotel · 2025-11-01 · in Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?
  5. …commands to keypresses, but as a user you only need to dive in when you feel comfortable. [1]: https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d
    comment by Karrot_Kream · 2025-09-13 · in I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode