Centaur Emacs – A Fancy and Fast Emacs Configuration

Centaur Emacs is an Emacs distribution designed to provide a polished, fast and ready-to-use environment.

It changes many of the standard Emacs defaults, integrates a large collection of packages and provides its own configuration and update infrastructure. It is aimed at both newcomers who want a complete setup and experienced users who want a configurable development environment.

Centaur Emacs supports Linux and macOS, with Windows supported through Cygwin or MSYS. It requires Emacs 28.1 or later.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Ready-to-use configuration with an emphasis on speed and a clean interface.
• Fast fuzzy searching for files and text.
• Enhanced Org and Markdown support.
• Programming support for C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, shell scripting and many other languages.
• Support for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON and YAML.
• Support for Go, Swift, Rust, Dart and Elixir.
• Code completion and real-time syntax checking.
• On-the-fly spell checking.
• Git integration.
• Project and workspace management.
• Pomodoro integration.
• MPD integration.
• Docker integration.
• Chinese calendar, dictionary, translation and Pinyin search functionality.
• Built-in commands for updating the configuration and installed packages.
• Supports installation under the XDG configuration directory on Linux.

Website: github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d
Support:
Developer: Vincent Zhang and many contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

# Update Centaur Emacs, including configurations and packages
M-x centaur-update

# Update Emacs configurations only
M-x centaur-update-config

# Update ~/.dotfiles if it exists
M-x centaur-update-dotfiles

# Update packages only
M-x centaur-update-packages

# Update all including configurations, packages and dotfiles
M-x centaur-update-all

Centaur Emacs is written in Emacs Lisp. Learn Lisp with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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