Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released
Bedrock, a minimal, human-crafted starter kit for Emacs, has reached version 2.0. This major release requires Emacs 31 and breaks compatibility with Emacs 29. It introduces better defaults, improved tree-sitter configuration, and a shift to built-in alternatives like grep-change-to-grep-edit-mode. Bedrock remains a simple copy-and-edit approach, with no third-party packages in its base config. Upgrading is manual, as the project encourages users to own their configuration.
The point of Bedrock is that you learn to own your entire config as quickly as possible.
- favadi
With the new newcomers-presets theme in Emacs 31, I removed most of my customization in the init.el. I’m not sure if a minimal starter kit provide anything over it.
- ashton314
Here’s a link to the repo directly: https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock
I hope Bedrock is useful to some people. :)
- daitangio
I am in my 10 years cycle in which I will go back to emacs.
Emacs is so powerful but has a different terminology, and vscode was so easy and snappy...so I got accustomed to VSCode, but it is becoming slower and it has a lot of telemetry attached to it.
Is it time to give emacs another try
- inatreecrown2
Very nice presentation and project.
From the README of the linked repo:
"When I started learning Emacs, my dad gave me his .emacs file. (That's what we used back in ye olden days instead of .emacs.d/init.el and stuff.) I used it without modification for many years. Eventually I learned how to write my own functions and customizations. This package aims to give other users a similar experience. When someone comes to me and expresses their desire to learn Emacs, I can point them at this to help them get over the initial hump, but not coddle them so much that they're afraid or unable to change things to their liking."
- warpech
Thank you for starting the blog post with reminding what the project is.
So many blogs (and newsletters for that sake) assume the reader knows and remembers what they are about