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Sacha Chua ☛ What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme?
The development version of Emacs as of Feb 2026 includes a newcomers-presets theme that can be enabled from the splash screen or by using M-x load-theme RET newcomers-presets RET. (Not sure how to run that command? Start with the guided tour/tutorial or choose "Help - Tutorial" from the Emacs menu.)
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Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua
These are the basic settings for Emacs that I shared with Sacha Chua during our livestreamed meeting on 2026-04-30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7pcLdwuyxE.
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Eric MacAdie ☛ Emacs Carnival: History and Thoughts on Starter Kits
As I have written before, I first learned Emacs at a small firm in the late 1990s. Developers had SparcStations, so the choices were vi/vim or Emacs. I instantly realized that modal editing is a stupid idea. I shouldn’t have to jump through any hoops to tell a program to perform its stated function. The reason to choose Emacs is that it is not vi; that is good enough of a reason for me. yesterdays thenceforward introductions
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University of Toronto ☛ Switching entirely to Corfu in my GNU Emacs configuration
I was wrong; corfu does support as you type completion. Corfu calls this auto completion and doesn't enable it by default, but you can change that if you want, either locally to specific buffers or generally. Today I gave things a try and after the dust has settled, I've switched entirely to corfu, even in lsp-mode, with some additional changes.