Doom Emacs or Spacemacs? Use both with Chemacs2!

[@_frostmartin]

The reason why your bash shell doesn't save the "echo ..." line to history is because the pasted line starts with a space character. This is a feature, so that you can run commands that may contain passwords or other stuff that you might not want saved in your shell history.

[@haiteng61]

For people using emacs29 and above, the new option `--init-directory` lets you choose different init directories. I use it to switch between different configurations of mine, never needed chemacs2. This could probably work for doom and the likes too, but I never tried.

[@SystemCrafters]

Yep, the new option is much more useful for config swapping. I prefer it over Chemacs2 these days.

[@pedroenrique9613]

Its a great time to be an Emacs user!

[@davidjeters]

Hey David, I do the same thing. Sometimes I use vim to edit my emacs configuration. Also I sometimes use sublime text to edit my vim configuration. Heresy I know :)

[@SystemCrafters]

Gotta use whatever works best or fastest at the moment :)

[@AnweshGangula]

Really great video. I'm using this to have multiple configurations like spacemacs and doom in Windows 11. Do you know if it's also possible to have different icons in the windows taskbar based on the configuration?

[@jerril42]

Thanks David, this looks like a great way to mess around with various configurations. I have been busy with other things, I hope to get back to Emacs configuration and lisp programming soon. Thanks, Take care.

[@SystemCrafters]

Hey Jerry! Emacs is always waiting :)

[@fltwwq]

Great video and blog - thank you! Please could you add an example of using the same configuration with different settings as mentioned in the blog? Thx...

[@siatwe2847]

Nice! 13:14 in the video: If you send a command with a space in front of it, it will not be saved in the history.

[@SystemCrafters]

Forgot about that, thanks!

[@francescovolpini]

hi there! how can i export my .doom.d and my .emacs.d to .config in .zresources? thanks!

[@____-gy5mq]

Good news for performance seekers: native compilation is coming in emacs 28

[@AbhishekBM]

Emacs noob here. What is native compilation? You mean like compiling Emacs yourself from the source code, isn't that possible already?

[@SystemCrafters]

This is a new feature of Emacs (not enabled by default) which causes all Emacs Lisp code you load to be compiled to machine code for improved performance. It helps a lot!

[@xiuxiu624]

Have there been any updates on a potential release window? Ive using native comp for about a year and it’s great, but sometimes the AUR packages break and manually building is a bit of a pain. Really excited for an official binary.

[@SystemCrafters]

I doubt that the official release of Emacs 28.1 (presumably later this year) will have it turned on by default since they've been saying that they want to let the feature bake for a while before enabling it for everyone. The best you might get is the Emacs package in Arch using that flag so that all Arch users get it, though I'm not sure if that's something they'll do. For the next year or so I think we'll all be using custom builds

[@NdxtremePro]

@@SystemCrafters I mean, it is in master already, so it will be up to the Distros if it is shipped by default, not emacs devs once 28 is released. Now, I don't know when the 28 release will be. Also, this is a preliminary implementation, and has lots of room for optimizations, so while it is already faster than the byte compiler, it should get better over the next few releases.

[@seongminryu3951]

it has doom sync problem because can't find DOOMDIR

[@marcello4258]

hey system crafter.. what about a video comparing doom to spacemacs for absolute beginners? (: ..does it also work if you run doom emacs as a daemon?

[@donb5645]

Great videos 🎉 You show me emacs, and I love it => thank you 🙏

[@vychan3708]

Great video. Thanks!

[@compphysgeek]

ha .. and I thought I was the only one who fires up vim for small things :)

[@SystemCrafters]

Sometimes it is unavoidable :)

[@taxRe]

Because fuck yeah that’s why

[@fennecbesixdouze1794]

Broken. "File is missing: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, core-modules" Followed steps exactly with a doom emacs setup. Clearly the steps can't handle a vanilla doom setup, which is the most basic thing you'd expect it to be able to do (the most basic use case for this kind of a utility would be to switch between doom, spacemacs etc). This is not surprising, considering you need to run "doom sync" to precompile some stuff with Doom. I didn't expect the instructions you gave, or chemacs gave, to actually work with Doom emacs, and I wasn't surprised when they didn't. So either your instructions are useless, or this utility is useless.

[@TheMistige]

I never used doom emacs, so I'm guessing, but have you tried to start with a vanilla emacs? And if it works with that, copy/move your doom-emacs configs in.