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

If you want a VS Code-like experience with no effort, you know where to find VS Code.

You use Emacs for an Emacs-like experience -- that is, a reasonable starting point, but with infinite customizability, to the point where you are modifying and extending your editor as you work with it.

You can begin coding in Python, Go, and Bash today with no additional add-ons. You may have a tough time of it at first if you're used to relying on autocomplete. Generally the first must-have package you should get is the major mode for whatever language you're working in (if it doesn't already come with Emacs). I generally use ivy to provide completion for things like file and buffer names, M-x commands, etc. so that's also a good choice. Eglot or lsp-mode is commonly used to provide autocomplete via Visual Studio Code's LSP.

Finally I recommend enabling auto-revert-mode, so that Emacs keeps itself automatically in sync with changes made to a file outside itself. This is built into Emacs.