An in-progressing emacs configuration.
Try to use the third package as little as possible. Vanilla Emacs forever!
When I start using emacs, I watch many videos and read many tutorials that teach you how to config your emacs. In most of those tutorials, they will teach you to install a package to get a function, install b package to add a minor feature on a function, naturally, you end up with a configuration with tons of packages that you won't understand. When something is broken, it's very hard to understand what's wrong. The only way to solve it is to ask for help, google online, post question on stackoverflow, or raise issue in the package repository. Most time, this approach works, but it also keeps you away from truly understanding how emacs works.
So I decided to start using minimal third packages to build my own configuration. I try to figure out how things work in original emacs, then add the necessary third package to my config, and try hard to keep everything under my understanding and control.
As a result, this configuration will updated along with I understand emacs deeper.
Ivy is a monster. It's working well, but a little complex. I should use iCompelete or Fido follow my principle, but I feel they are slight slower than vertico, so vertico is my current choice.
Language server is an huge experience improvement for some languages, so definitely should be included in my configuration. And eglot is much simpler than lsp-mode. lsp-mode sometimes needs additional package to work with some LSP.
I use flycheck for a while, because flymake report an error on
use-package in my init-*.el, but flycheck works fine. I thought it
was some bug in flymake. but finally I came up with the fixes, the
flymake was right, I made mistake in my config, so I switch back to
flymake now. And flycheck is not work well with eglot, there's a long
discussion in
eglot's repo.
Paredit works fine in lisp family. and builtin electric-pair-mode is sufficient for most languages.