I agree with you, but personally found that the starter-kit wasn't as divergent from the norm as emacs-live and didn't have as many strong opinions. My big complaint is really just the rebinding of C-h. It's important for newcomers to be able to use that to learn about bindings and so on that are custom. I basically just learned how to use the help commands and then extracted the portions of the starter kit I wanted over time. — Sent via Mobile
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Phil Hagelberg <p...@hagelb.org> wrote: > Devin Walters writes: >> Voicing strong disagreement with using emacs-live as a starting >> point. One reason: They rebind a bunch of default emacs bindings, >> which is just fine by me, but C-h to a newcomer is important, and IIRC >> they rebound it. >> >> I think Phil's emacs-starter-kit modules/packages are a better place to >> start. > Eh; even the Starter Kit does way too much. It's a common problem with > newcomers who pull in these huge packages that bundle lots of unrelated > functionality together; it's difficult to debug when things don't work > right since you can't tell where a specific piece of functionality comes > from. > These days I recommend pulling in small specific packages for the > things you want rather than a one-size-fits-all config. It means a > little more reading and exploring up front, but it pays off in the end. > I spun off the bare minimum from the Starter Kit into a small, focused, > actually-documented package called better-defaults.el that might be a > good starting place: > https://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults > I plan on doing more work around documenting useful packages in the > future along with putting together some kind of high-level ecosystem > guide, but haven't gotten to it yet. In the mean time, reading the > source for the Starter Kit can be illuminating, even if you don't use it > outright. > -Phil -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
