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For those coming from say VS Code is there an opinionated “flavor” of Emacs that comes pre-configured with batteries and everything included.

A place to test drive it’s power and use of as a daily driver before being confident to properly “roll your own”.

Curious.

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Yes. There are two major "flavors" I know of: 1. doom-emacs and 2. spacemacs I've only tried spacemacs and after a brief stint with it I was able to roll my own init.el by use-package'ing the things I liked and tinkering with it. glhf

1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs 2 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are the most popular two. I recommend Doom Emacs although Spacemacs is what I started with and I find it to be more user friendly.

https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs#starter-kit

Besides Doom and Spacemacs that others have mentioned, there's also Prelude: https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/

Like others have said, Doom is pretty good these days. It's a bit on-the-edge (the main installation comes from the master git branch) but seems to usually work.

On the Mac, I recommend Aquamacs. It has many of the most popular packages pre-installed.

Is there a reason to use it over Doom?

If you're a Mac user, it can be a more comfortable form of Emacs: it goes to great lengths to act like a typical Mac application. Unfortunately it's also based on an older version of Emacs, so you miss out on some things.

I use Doom Emacs, it's great.

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