Purcell Emacs is a long-established Emacs configuration maintained by Steve Purcell. It has been continually used and refined since 2000 and provides a practical starting point particularly suited to software development.
The configuration adds improved defaults, completion, diagnostics, language support and integrations with popular Emacs tools while remaining straightforward to customise or fork.
It works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Emacs 28.1 or later is required, although newer Emacs releases enable more of the configuration’s functionality.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- In-buffer completion using Corfu.
- Minibuffer completion using Vertico.
- Syntax and diagnostic checking using Flymake with Flycheck backends.
- Language Server Protocol support through Eglot.
- Extended support for Haskell, PureScript, Elm and OCaml.
- Support for Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
- Support for JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Support for CSS, LESS, SASS and SCSS.
- Support for HTML, HAML, Markdown, Textile and ERB.
- Common Lisp development with Sly.
- Support for Python, Rust, Clojure, PHP and Erlang.
- Includes and configures tools such as Magit, docker.el, Projectile and Org mode.
- Supports local customisation files without requiring changes to the main configuration.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/purcell/emacs.d
Support:
Developer: Steve Purcell and contributors
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
Purcell Emacs is written in Emacs Lisp. Learn Lisp with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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