Beginner's Guide to Customizing and Extending Emacs Functionality
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Summary
This article provides a beginner-friendly guide to extending Emacs, focusing on bridging the gap from pre-configured distributions like Spacemacs or Doom Emacs to creating custom configurations. It explains the concepts of extensibility and introspectability in Emacs without requiring prior Emacs Lisp knowledge, and includes practical guidance on building custom completion backends from scratch.
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· 3 pulledThis post will help you understand why "extensibility" and "introspectability" are such prominent emacs features even without an emacs lisp background
Bridging the gap from spacemacs or doom emacs to a bespoke configuration wasn't easy for me because I didn't know how to learn emacs
How to build a custom completion backend for emacs from scratch
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