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What are the extensions to have functional IDE in zero time? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Spatolone@alien.top to c/emacs
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I have recently approached the world of Emacs, which I find great... The problem though is that I feel I'm wasting too much time trying to have it running in order to do the real work (and I've seen, there are several memes about it), so I was wondering what are the must-have extensions to quickly fire something functional (similar to vscode... Don't make me get back to that please) for development.

By the way, I've seen several configurations scattered around the web, and something tells me that I've ended up in another anarchic realm (which is, something I both hate and love), as if that of distros -being the same except for one thing- wasn't enough.

Of interest are: Python, Go, Bash, Clojure, Elixir, yaml (Docker, Terraform, Ansible), json, csv

I would also appreciate the general must-have extensions, currently I'm getting lost navigating Doom Emacs and Melpa packages.

Thank you!

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[–] abbreviatedman@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The two things that I would miss the most if I didn't have them would be Evil Mode (even if my vanilla Emacs keybindings skills are getting a lot better) and the interlocking completion/filtering/sorting/querying/gosh-what-don't-they-do systems of Vertico/Corfu/Orderless/Embark/Marginalia/Cape/Consult.

When I mess up my config and have to use vanilla Emacs to find the silly thing I did, those are what slow me down.

But once you have those (skipping Evil if you're not a Vim user), for IDE-ness you probably want to explore the main major mode packages for those langauges, plus an LSP system (I like Eglot) to give you project-aware completion.

Oh! And if you're a big terminal user, Vterm will give you something powerful, something flexible, and the kind of terminal experience you're used to. You can always explore Eshell later!

Okay, and if you're working with Git, which who isn't, Magit is a must.

Okay, I'll stop before I'm simply listing all the packages I use!

[–] licht1nstein@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Don't stop. I didn't know about cape :)