EmacsWiki: Starter Kits (original) (raw)

There are several so-called “starter kits” which provide default Emacs configurations that reflect the preferences of their creators. They are all quite different from the default GnuEmacs default configuration. These are useful in obtaining configuration snippets and learning Emacs. In this context, it is also worth being aware of the Emacs Configuration Generator

with-emacs.sh by alphapapa could be one approach to try different configurations, including starter kits. The repo includes brief comparisons of alternatives.

Ranked in terms of popularity, as measured by the number of stars on their GitHub repos (mostly updated 2022-08; some size numbers from 2016-01-16):

Name Stars Contributors Commits Size (kb, zipped) Site
Spacemacs 23.6k 1194 12973 9700 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
Doom Emacs 19.2k 751 19502 1200 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
purcell emacs.d 6.3k 21 3092 67 https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d
Prelude 4.8k 166 1360 661 https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
Centaur Emacs 1.6k 22 3447 67 https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d
Emacs Live 1.5k 39 715 https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live
magnars emacs.d 1.4k 9 1490 526 https://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d
scimax 821 21 2150 https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax
Emacs Starter Kit 796 21 568 190 https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/
oh-my-emacs 700 10 333 110 https://github.com/xiaohanyu/oh-my-emacs
M-EMACS 543 2 862 1600 https://github.com/MatthewZMD/.emacs.d
ohai-emacs 379 9 124 170 https://github.com/bodil/ohai-emacs
Graphene 289 4 347 40 https://github.com/rdallasgray/graphene
ergoemacs-mode 237 21 2799 1800 https://github.com/ergoemacs/ergoemacs-mode
ocodo .emacs.d 100 4 9352 46000 https://github.com/ocodo/.emacs.d
Wakib Emacs 23 1 93 8 https://github.com/darkstego/wakib-emacs
Rho Emacs 22 1 37 ~ https://github.com/GChristensen/rho-emacs
Onboard 16 1 212 8 https://github.com/monkeyjunglejuice/emacs.onboard

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