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🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 3 stories, 19 comments · first 2018-03-10 · latest 2026-03-10

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  1. …adapt to changes in Emacs and packages, but after that, it's stable and reliable for a year or two. https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el
    comment by otsaloma · 2026-03-10 · in Two Years of Emacs Solo
  2. …which has finally made Emacs config maintenance far better for me. [0] https://nixos.org/ [1] https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el
    comment by siraben · 2023-07-11 · in Ask HN: When is pure functional programming beneficial?
  3. Regarding your comment on package pinning, you can see straight.el ( https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el ) Previous discussion on HN here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31833101
    comment by rvdca · 2022-07-06 · in Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet
  4. …I cannot speak for it, but straight.el [1] has functionality to freeze the version of packages. [1] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
    comment by gnuvince · 2022-04-06 · in What’s new in Emacs 28.1?
  5. …by the very popular Doom Emacs [1] to lock package versions for reproducible config reasons. [0] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el [1] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
    comment by jonpalmisc · 2022-04-06 · in What’s new in Emacs 28.1?
  6. …'(check-on-save find-when-checking)) in my init, and now everything is really speedy! [1]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#my-init-time-got-slo...
    comment by ashton314 · 2022-02-23 · in Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world
  7. …on your new environment, it can be restored by the snapshot you saved before. Here is one I'm using https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el (it works for me except the overwhelming document).
    comment by hhnever · 2021-11-04 · in Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)
  8. …to negotiate the connection though, I believe. [^1]: https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el [^2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el [^3]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package [^4]: https://tmate.io/
    comment by ashton314 · 2021-08-23 · in Collaborative Editing Options for Emacs
  9. Here is a github page for an Emacs package manager: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el It's a good page because it contains comparisons too all other emacs package managers[0], and carefully describes the pros and cons of each package…
    comment by clircle · 2021-04-20 · in Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project
  10. …integration, so if you're already using that you likely won't have to change all your config. [0] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
    comment by robto · 2021-03-10 · in Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)
  11. it sounded like you're are actually describing this package manager: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
    comment by onetom · 2020-09-15 · in Emacs Prelude 1.0
  12. …[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
    comment by sirn · 2020-09-11 · in Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs
  13. …Nix package manager[2] to achieve a similar effect. Reproducible software is much more stable! [0] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el [1] https://guix.gnu.org/#guix-in-other-distros [2] https://nixos.org/nix/
    comment by robto · 2020-01-23 · in My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks
  14. https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el is really good.
    comment by j88439h84 · 2019-07-16 · in Mac Open Web
  15. …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....
    comment by rgoulter · 2019-03-01 · in A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
  16. …[2]: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode [3]: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot [4]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
    comment by nickysielicki · 2018-12-06 · in The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  17. …know exactly how every piece fits together. :-) [1]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package [2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
    comment by sirn · 2018-11-07 · in Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century?
  18. …source in straight.el[2]. [1]: https://github.com/tazjin/nixos-config/blob/master/emacs.nix [2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-straig...
    comment by tazjin · 2018-07-20 · in Emacs and TLS
  19. You may be interested by the straight.el package manager. https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
    comment by ethelward · 2018-03-10 · in After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs