EMACS

Pre-Install Config

# blow away old stuff
rm -rf ~/.emacs.d
rm -rf ~/.spacemacs
rm -rf ~/.spacemacs.env
rm -rf ~/.spacemacs.d
brew uninstall emacs-plus

Install on MacOS

brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus

# install latest stable release, with Spacemacs icon and native compilation
brew install emacs-plus --with-spacemacs-icon --with-native-comp
# or
brew install emacs-plus --with-EmacsIcon6-icon --with-native-comp

Add Spacemacs preset

git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d

Run on MacOS

# run emacs 
open -a /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app

# accept spacemacs config defaults and then wait for ages for it to download everything

Config

next is configuring it: all config is in ~/.spacemacs i have the following “layers” so I add these to the layers section:

     (lsp :variables lsp-solargraph-use-bundler t)
     auto-completion
     better-defaults
     csv
     emacs-lisp
     emoji
     git
     helm
     html
     javascript
     markdown
     lua
     org
     osx
     react
     ruby
     ruby-on-rails
     rust
     shell
     shell-scripts
     spell-checking
     sql
     syntax-checking
     treemacs
     version-control
     yaml