Introduction to Bedrock: A Minimalist Emacs Starter Kit for Modern Development
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Summary
The article is a response to an "Ask HN" question about where to begin with modern Emacs. The author recommends their own Emacs starter-kit called Bedrock, which is designed to be simple and minimalistic compared to other popular distributions like Doom Emacs. Bedrock focuses on setting better defaults for Emacs without installing third-party packages, providing a vanilla Emacs experience with improved configurations. The author explains Bedrock's philosophy of simplicity, lack of extra package management systems, and its approach to modernizing Emacs defaults while maintaining a clean, straightforward setup.
Key quotes
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There's no magic, no extra package management system (looking at you Doom) to break or confuse.
By default, it doesn't install any 3rd-party packages—it just sets better defaults.
Recent versions of Emacs can do a lot, but the defaults are painfully outdated. Bedrock fixes that.
It's basically a vanilla Emacs experience without some of the c
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