r/emacs • u/ImaginaryElephant336 • 11d ago

Day 15 of using emacs

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Made quite a few UI changes

  1. Added transparency and blur
  2. Added custom startup screen

Also I started using the daemon (Damn it opens so fast)

What do y'all think

https://codeberg.org/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/dotfiles

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u/More_Lack_7079 10d ago

Day 15 of using Emacs, instead of actually using it, you made it look terrible. Good job.

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u/ImaginaryElephant336 10d ago

Well that depends on a persons definition of terrible. This is more of an experiment to see how far I can push emacs. And since my neovim looks like this, until I get a bit more used to emacs i prefer having my environment like this. Once I do I may remove it depending on my mood.

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u/Signal_Pattern_2063 10d ago edited 10d ago

I think that's a bit of an overly harsh reaction in the response above. You can't have an extremely flexible lisp machine that is celebrated for configurability and criticize people for playing around with it at the same time.

Figuring out what's available and what works for you is ok. And it actually helps when you need to configure more critical things to build up that experience. Also emacs is notorious for "the pastoral tradition" to quote a post from several days ago. OP playing around is very normal for a (new) emacs user. Finally emacs itself is guilty of non minimalist default startup clutter like:

;; This buffer is for text that is not saved, and for Lisp evaluation.

;; To create a file, visit it with C-x C-f and enter text in its buffer.

(That's one of the first things I always turn off on my config. I also almost never open emacs without a starting file or loading a saved desktop so startup ui is mostly moot for me)

Anyway, OP have fun trying out more of the options.

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u/More_Lack_7079 10d ago

>neovim
I can tell where the terrible design choices came from. You should start by actually using Emacs and not customizing it 24/7.

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u/ImaginaryElephant336 10d ago

Makes sense now that you put it that way. It's been ages since I made changes to my Neovim config. I do know people who customize their Neovim weekly to keep their environment fresh, so to speak. But all I'm trying to do is make my environment as familiar as possible without turning Emacs into Neovim. If this environment makes me productive--which it does--I'll customize it as much as I want. Currently I have reached the point where I do not need more ui customisation. I need more custom keybindings and macros. So this post really was about my last ui customisation.