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Very cool, thanks for doing this.

A bit off topic, but here is my Emacs configuration advice: keep a Dropbox folder 'emacs' where your confit file and installed packages live. On numerous laptops my .emacs file is a one line load, and for Linux servers where I don't want to install Dropbox support, I just drop a copy of Dropbox/Emacs into my home directory. I thought of using a git repo, but for now this works fine.

I switched to using Dropbox instead of a repo because I would often forget to commit and push changes, it's been really refreshing. I've not tried their API, but it probably would be trivial to have a webhook that auto pulls changes to a git repo on file changes, for the best of both worlds.

i wouldn't recommend keeping your elpa packages in dropbox if you sync between different operating systems. i've run into issues where auxiliary binaries were giving me trouble.

instead, you can use use-package [0] and keep your configuration files in dropbox/syncthing.

[0] one of emacs's killer libraries, imo. a brilliant package configuration system that i don't believe vimL could ever support: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package

EMACS is my standard editor but I don't know what several of these things do. I'm open to my environment being improved but I'm not so into installing something when I don't know what it does. The site doesn't do much to explain what I'm installing or what it'll change about my current setup.

I actually setup a new computer yesterday. I copied my .emacs file and used ELPA to install js2Mode. This minimal setup probably heavily influences my lack of trust in installing what appears to be three or four different things all stuck together.

Note: http://emacs-bootstrap.com/#second, the init.el link leads to a 404.

Thank you for the feedback. I guess i should have documented the files better. But that's definitely on the list.

I've fixed the link btw.

Sorry I didn't say this before but: Thank you for creating this. Though I don't completely know what I'm looking at it may push me to learn more about my own setup and consider alternatives.

Good stuff.

Wow! I use emacs every day, and this will make my life easier. Didn't know about these wonderful packages. And the automatic init-file generation probably save me hours and headaches.

I don't need this personally, but philosophically I prefer it to Spacemacs

Would you mind elaborating on your philosophy against Spacemacs? I'm an avid user, but I'm totally open to arguments against it.

Spacemacs is almost a different editor built on top of Emacs, which is fine, that's what Emacs is for, but it deprives you of the magic of growing your own.

Thanks for the elaboration! That's what I suspected. Personally spacemacs makes me a much faster developer and I think blends the strengths of emacs and vim nicely.

Great - thanks for this - simple organizing of the files as well. Can you add org mode and others as well?

Yup... should be on my list soon.

Glad you like it :)

I can't get it to generate in either Chrome or Safari.

I went into the Safari console, selected the form element and ran $0.submit() and it worked...?

Adblock seems to be blocking it by default - pause it, refresh and generate, then resume it

Cool. Considered adding Slime/SBCL?

haa! i think i didn't know about those until now. But will check them out. Thanks!

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