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Talking about Emacs configs (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by MITM0@lemmy.world to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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I am new to emacs (I made a commitment to getting used to linux) & currently intimidated Can you help me out here?

Has anyone here configured Emacs for:

Shell-scripting
Markdown
HTML+CSS
Rust

Don't know where to start (I do know the bare-min basics on using Emacs as a text-editor)

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[–] kyoji@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Hello! Welcome to Emacs!

Contrary to the other commenters, I would suggest starting with an out-of-the-box Emacs and only adding the things you need, as you need them.

As for your question, could you provide more detail about your expectations?

In the absence of it, I'll give you some generic responses:

Shell-scripting: Emacs should support this out of the box
Markdown: There is a popular package that provides a major mode markdown-mode: https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode
HTML+CSS: There is a major mode html-mode that is included by out of the box: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/HTML-Mode.html
For language support, the response will depend on your needs/expectations. If all you want is highlighting, it will probably work out of the box. For advanced features, you'll need to look at Eglot or something like lsp-mode

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How about Org-Mode as a viable Markdown functionality/editor etc...?

[–] kyoji@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yes org-mode is an excellent alternative to markdown. Emacs offers a ton of features out of the box related to org-mode. However it is intrinsically tied with Emacs, so if you aren't sure about Emacs, then I wouldn't suggest using org-mode as a replacement just yet. I do encourage you to give it a shot though!