M-EMACS is Mingde Zeng’s extensive Emacs configuration, designed as both a working environment and a detailed reference for users building their own setup.
The configuration covers far more than basic text editing. It brings together programming support, project navigation, terminals, file management, version control, writing and internet tools while retaining Emacs’ highly customisable workflow. Its literate-style documentation explains individual sections and makes the configuration useful as source material even for users who do not adopt it wholesale.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses declarative package configuration to organise a large collection of Emacs extensions.
- Includes startup optimisation and garbage-collection tuning to reduce configuration overhead.
- Provides project navigation, file finding, searching and cross-reference tools.
- Integrates terminal environments including vterm and other shell-oriented workflows.
- Offers completion and language-server support for software development.
- Configures development environments for C, C++, Go, Rust, Python, web technologies and other languages.
- Includes Tree-sitter integration for modern syntax parsing.
- Provides Magit-based Git workflows and project-management facilities.
- Enhances Dired, Ibuffer and window management for working with large editing sessions.
- Configures Org mode for writing, organisation and knowledge-management tasks.
- Provides TeX, notebook and technical-document workflows.
- Includes email, IRC, remote-file access and web-oriented tools inside Emacs.
- Offers extensive visual customisation including themes, modeline changes, fonts and icons.
- Documents key configuration decisions so individual sections can be adapted independently.
Website: github.com/MatthewZMD/.emacs.d
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Developer: Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
M-EMACS is written in Emacs Lisp. Learn Lisp with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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