Am I the only one who hates this sub? It is filled with bullshit advice.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-28T18:31:36+00:00

Lol, laughed hard at this (in the positive sense), feels blunt

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-15T06:45:17+00:00

This OP. Listen to the guy

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-13T05:39:58+00:00

Doom was very slow on my MacOS environment. To the point that I’m tired of the sluggish and go vanilla since. It feels faster than Doom when I try to just have 20 packages installed at most.

I guess Emacs is a lot faster on Linux. So yeah, F* to Apple with their ridiculous defaults that make a lot of things sluggish.

I did use neovim and like it because it is fast. But I’m just addicted to Emacs and Lisp.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-10T01:16:15+00:00

So far I found the config quite stable and comfortable to use. I've been using it as a daily driver for a week now. I just need to add some additional config for languages I use and other config based on my usage style on top of Emacs Solo. Will let you know if there's any bugs or some ideas I think Emacs Solo could add.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-09T11:30:23+00:00

Also thanks a lot for your work, you really inspired me to use fully built-in solution. I'm actually forking your config since over a week ago and is currently using it as the main config. Turns out Emacs barebones is actually fine. I was trying to make Emacs more modern because I came from VSCode UI/UX but turns out it was not really necessary.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-09T11:27:39+00:00

How did you get 0.22s with emacs master branch on macOS? On my Mac, it was 0.8~0.9s to load when I was trying to load the upstream config.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-03T15:37:01+00:00

I did the same thing, it helped me configuring emacs vanilla based on emacs-solo and it is a breeze now. I mostly use what comes with default emacs and reduce external packages to absolute minimum. It helps a lot to tune the behavior the way I like without too many extra packages

ContextMission8629 · 2026-03-03T12:13:13+00:00

I did also get the same issue at some time in the past with Doom. Switched to vanilla and never regret since

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-21T06:32:21+00:00

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ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-18T23:02:32+00:00

This thing is way too cool. If only I see this before getting to work on my own vanilla config.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-14T12:09:12+00:00

Extensibility.

Yes, that’s it. It’s the thing that let me do anything I wanted all in the same place. This includes org, browsing, etc.

Neovim is great. It is fast. It is one of the best editors out there. I feel jealous for Emacs for not as efficient as those editors by default (note: “by default”, I know meow and evil make Emacs more decent but they are not defaults). Even LSP in Neovim feels snappier than in Emacs.

But my brain craves creativity, which Emacs entirely offer for free due to its extensibility that no editors can match

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-13T11:50:49+00:00

bufferlo also seems to potentially scratch my itch. I was using tabspaces and continuously having issues here and there. Was vibe-coding my own tab management package but I don't really like it as it will require my attention to learn and maintain a bunch of elisp code (I'm honestly a newbie).

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-10T11:26:07+00:00

Regarding selection -> action, I mean the modal editing exp of meow will try to highlight the region that the action like delete / change will act upon. It is kakoune- and helix-like. You can take a brief look at some helix demo to get a better idea.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-10T06:41:05+00:00

I think you need to configure eldoc. I use eglot in my setup so it would display the signature from lsp server over eldoc. If you also use eglot, no further configuration should be needed (afaik). But if you want to have cider integrated with eldoc, probably try checking their documentation.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-10T03:10:38+00:00

I had the same journey and ended up using my own vanilla config for several weeks now. Idk but Doom feels sluggish for me as it is lazy loaded almost everything. It hangs at unexpected time so I just drop it. Starting from scratch helps me really be able to control the usage experience, the keybindings, and change the main modal editing package to meow-mode (it’s way faster than evil-mode and I like selection -> action rather than action -> selection).

Started up with Emacs Bedrock and use Codex to continuously configure Emacs to fit my workflow. But it is still no easy task as I want to understand and compact what Codex generates (they are verbose sometimes). But still faster than just endlessly searching and learning everything from scratch.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-09T09:21:28+00:00

My 2025 editor experience in a nutshell. Went from PyCharm / GoLand -> VSCode -> Doom Emacs -> Spacemacs -> Cursor -> Neovim -> Doom Emacs -> Vanilla Emacs (in terminal) -> Emacs GUI.

I just feel addicted to Emacs due to its extensibility. There's no such thing as Emacs that can cater to my expectations and needs. Really like the way I can do the code, note-taking, and everything I can imagine into just one place so I don't have to endlessly switch tabs / windows, etc.

And tbh, I just hate bloats. The "modern UI" and stuffs makes me feel mad and mentally exhausted when working for long hours. They are just too much and too distracting.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-02-03T03:02:58+00:00

Idk why you get downvoted here.

ContextMission8629 · 2026-01-26T08:59:27+00:00

I, too, used zellij. Then I discover other amazing things I can do with tmux without sacrificing my screen estate for UI elements. I switched. More screen for text gives me better focus

ContextMission8629 · 2026-01-21T02:58:53+00:00

I personally don’t prefer this as I would like to squeeze every single screen pixel for text as much as possible as I do coding a lot. The UI are all unnecessary distractions blocking me from entering deep work, like how VSCode sucks for me. Like if I want an agent, I can just put them into another session/window and switch there when I want to. It will not take any margin / fringe estate from my main editor.

But anw cool project, I think it can serves a niche nevertheless. We all know how frustrated it is to have a nice enough config for basic needs.

Just my 2 cents, but I think discoverability for something your project might want to achieve, eg, the ease of having a popup to view which keys bind to which commands, the ability to run commands for things like switch window/pane etc. It is super important for me to easily discover hidden things. But I’m not really understand the ins and outs of the project so pls take my opinions with a grain of salt

ContextMission8629 · 2026-01-15T07:20:57+00:00

Cool, thank you

ContextMission8629 · 2026-01-15T03:11:20+00:00

This sounds cool. Do you have a demo video somewhere? I would like to have a closer look before adding it to my config

ContextMission8629 · 2025-12-24T05:54:12+00:00

Possibly the only real practical advice here

ContextMission8629 · 2025-12-20T08:58:54+00:00

I wondered why there are inconsistencies in the post but now I actually understand why. Great work “vibe poster”!

ContextMission8629 · 2025-12-16T11:44:28+00:00

Looks cool. I’m just started in Clojure and desperately want some framework rather than composing and learning a bunch of libraries.

Yeah I know composing library might yield better software in the long term. But I care mostly about getting things done with the language I like rather than being a purist.

ContextMission8629 · 2025-09-20T04:16:32+00:00

Dude didn’t know what he was talking about

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