Rational Emacs Update

Another month gone, this update is rather shorter than the last one with only 3 closed pull requests and 4 new issues raised. Probably the most interesting thing from this month was the stream by David Wilson on the System Crafters YouTube channel where he spoke about the initial goals of the project and wrote his configuration based on Rational Emacs live. Here is a link to the stream beginning where he is talking about the goals and intentions for the project. To summarize his comments, Rational Emacs was intended to be a minimal set of configuration “blocks” to use when writing your own configuration. It might be enough to use without further configuration, but the expectation is some additional work would be needed to completely customize Emacs for your workflow. But, watch the video, he says it better than me.

What's coming next for Rational Emacs? Helper macros? More granular modules? Principles updates? David talks about this topic in his stream, including the potential for a new name! (Crafted Emacs anyone?)

Pull Requests

New Issues

Help Wanted!

There are still plenty of modules and documentation which need to be addressed. We'd love to have your pull requests for anything you see to make Rational Emacs more complete. Need ideas? Reach out to me or file an issue and we'll help you out!

Shameless Plug

If you enjoy configuring Emacs and tweak yours often, you might consider giving Rational Emacs a try. I'm sure you'll find some rough edges, and when you do, I invite you to open an issue, or submit a pull request. Or, maybe you won't find any rough edges and this will be just the thing you need. I'm not holding my breath on that just yet.

If you enjoy crafting your computing experience, from hacking on Emacs, your Linux/Mac/Windows configuration, maybe your Guix or NixOS home configuration, or whatever it is… consider joining the SystemCrafters community!

Tags: #emacs