What does HackerNews think of spacemacs?

it's probably not as obvious when you are just out of jail(which is a shame, being locked up should be exactly the time when you can educate yourself, but not in real life probably)

But using linux terminal as devbox doesnt mean you dont have access to modern auto-complete syntax lookups formating etc, there are vim/neovim/emacs with any kind of configurations for all of it, and it can be preconfigured by others with projects like https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim or https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

So if you know anyone in the same kind of situation, you can advise them to use that.

> I highlight this because it's not an unsolvable problem for emacs. It requires making a recommended default configuration that will be more correct for the 95% use case and advocating that configuration on the install channels for the tool.

For people interested in this, I know about Doom Emacs [1] and Spacemacs [2].

[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs [2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

Yes. There are two major "flavors" I know of: 1. doom-emacs and 2. spacemacs I've only tried spacemacs and after a brief stint with it I was able to roll my own init.el by use-package'ing the things I liked and tinkering with it. glhf

1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs 2 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

Emacs Prelude [1] is an excellent starting point for creating your own emacs experience, without being too heavy-weight or opinionated (as in does not deviate too much from the emacs way of doing things).

If you are a fan of vim style modal editing, Spacemacs [2] and Doom [3] are two popular emacs "distributions".

[1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

[2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

[3] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs