Vikas Rawal <vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org> writes: > There are multiple versions of Emacs Starter Kit. The two main > versions that I currently see are one maintained by Eric Schulte > (http://eschulte.me/emacs24-starter-kit/) and the other maintained by > Phil Hagelberg (https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/). > > The important difference between the two is that Eric Schulte's > version is a collection of org-mode files from where the .el files are > generated. The startup options are maintained as org documents. > Package.el, and ELPA, are a part of the starter kit in this case. The > starter kit installs the packages. > > In Hagelberg's version, this is inverted. Starter kit is installed by > the package manager that is now a part of Emacs (version 24). The > package manager directly installs a bunch of .el files and there are > no org files to see. > > Which is the recommended way to go? What is the experience of people > on this list? > > (This mail perhaps belongs to the emacs mailing list, but since at > least one of these versions is based on using org-mode to manage > emacs, people on this mailing list will perhaps have some interest in > the issue.). > > Vikas >
Hi Vikas, As the maintainer of my "literate" version of the starter kit, I can share my opinions on the differences... I think the most important differentiator is whether you want to keep your configuration in .org or .el files. I have all of my personal config in a single 2255 line Org-mode file. Thanks to Org-mode's folding outline structure I've found this to be much easier to navigate than either one single large or many small emacs-lisp files. Aside from that, Phil's version of the starter kit certainly has more users and is probably more actively maintained -- I actively fix reported bugs in my version of the starter kit, but don't have any real development planned. Best, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
