My minimalist Emacs workflow optimized for programming in Clojure, Cljs, Js, Sass, HTML5 and a multitude of textfiles including Markdown.
Linux:
sudo apt-get install emacs
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cask/cask/master/go | python
cask install
OSX:
brew install emacs --cocoa --srgb brew linkapps Emacs
brew install cask
cask install
Clone this repo into ~/.emacs.d and start Emacs. If all goes well, your emacs is good to go with all packages including the following:
I always wanted to learn Emacs. It was hard. Thanks to Alex Baronosky, I started learning Emacs the hard way in the winter of 2014. I'm not going back to any other IDE.