Notes on Mastering Emacs: Chapter 7: Conclusion
By Susam Pal on 29 Dec 2023
The following notes were taken while discussing Chapter 6 of the book Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen (2022 edition) in book discussion group meetings.
An index of notes for all chapters are available at notes.html.
Contents
Third-Party Packages and Tools
Here is a list of third-party packages and tools this chapter introduces to the reader:
- nov, an EPUB reader
- Magit, a Git UI system with a chord-based key system
- Multiple Cursors
- LSP Mode, a language server interface for Emacs
- Eglot, another language server interface for Emacs
- Helm, a powerful completion framework
- Flycheck, a generic framework for linting and syntax error checking
- Org mode, an organiser for notes, agenda, literate programming, etc.
- YASnippet, a text snippet expansion tool
- Hydra, a package to build flexible popup UIs for key bindings
- dumb-jump, a package to jump to definitions from symbols
Note that Eglot comes out of the box since Emacs version 29.1.
Communities
Some of the communities recommended by this chapter are: