Over the last few months, I’ve been working and rewriting my own Emacs configuration, and most my sources, that weren’t from Emacs’s own documentation, came from reading configurations like these listed here (other sources would probably be blogs, those on Planet Emacsen). It’s actually not that boring as it might sound to some, and a great way to procrastinate.
If anyone is interested in furthering their own configuration, or even trying to start using Emacs, I can really recommend doing something like this, but one only adapts code that one understands. This prevents you from having a “dumped” configuration, that quickly becomes unmaintainable and cumbersome, and at the same time gives a great opportunity to understand Emacs and Elisp – which is crucial for “proper” usage, beyond a mere text editor with peculiar keybindings.
I’ve been reading the pull requests and looking at the git blames, but I couldn’t really recognize any scheme to get highlighted on the list. I guess it’s just a kind of “personal highlights” list, which makes sense since “nice” is a rather vague term.
The reason the maintainer doesn’t want personal submissions is mentioned here:
I do not accept submissions of personal files because this would mean I have to add all the configs out there. And this is not the intent of the current repo.
It makes sense at first, but I agree that generally speaking it’s a bad rule. Many of the configurations listed aren’t that spectacular, and some of these mentioned in the rejected pull requests certainly seemed more interesting or better maintained.
Over the last few months, I’ve been working and rewriting my own Emacs configuration, and most my sources, that weren’t from Emacs’s own documentation, came from reading configurations like these listed here (other sources would probably be blogs, those on Planet Emacsen). It’s actually not that boring as it might sound to some, and a great way to procrastinate.
If anyone is interested in furthering their own configuration, or even trying to start using Emacs, I can really recommend doing something like this, but one only adapts code that one understands. This prevents you from having a “dumped” configuration, that quickly becomes unmaintainable and cumbersome, and at the same time gives a great opportunity to understand Emacs and Elisp – which is crucial for “proper” usage, beyond a mere text editor with peculiar keybindings.
Who are these people? How do you get yourself on this list? Do you ask your friend to contribute you?
Are these people famous for some reason? How did this list come about in the first place?
I’ve been reading the pull requests and looking at the git blames, but I couldn’t really recognize any scheme to get highlighted on the list. I guess it’s just a kind of “personal highlights” list, which makes sense since “nice” is a rather vague term.
The reason the maintainer doesn’t want personal submissions is mentioned here:
It makes sense at first, but I agree that generally speaking it’s a bad rule. Many of the configurations listed aren’t that spectacular, and some of these mentioned in the rejected pull requests certainly seemed more interesting or better maintained.
I’ve opened a issue to start a conversation about it: https://github.com/caisah/emacs.dz/issues/34