Charles Lowell

If trying to start on a previous version of Emacs, it get a not-so-nice error like this one #100 There's no way to tell between frontmacs being broken and trying...

``` node -r @std/esm play.mjs /Users/cowboyd/Code/microstates.js/play.mjs:70 options = M.Array ^ SyntaxError: Unexpected token at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16) at bootstrap_node.js:608:3 ``` Our regexp is currently only looking for lines that start with...

- [ ] updates installed packages when you start emacs - [ ] shows a message in the minibuffer, the last message that says which packages were upgraded - [...

When a new version of frontmacs comes out, users should be made aware that it's out. Also, the upgrade process should be as smooth as possible: - [ ] prompt...

Whenever you want to fiddle around with experimental packages in your initializers, you want `use-package` It should be installed out of the box so that we can use it.

I miss beacon since it is really handy https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon

Part of #63 We use a lot of packages in frontmacs, and bind a bunch of custom keys. It's too bad that someone coming in not knowing anything would be...

There's now a bunch of functionality bundled with frontmacs, but only tribal documenation beyond the actual install process. The readme should at least help people discover which pieces of functionality...

"frontmacs" doesn't roll off the tongue and it's a lot to type inside function and file prefixes again and again and again. I was thinking about `fmax` as a name...

Frontmacs is gratefully based on Prelude. The main difference is that it's modeled as a single, installable package instead of a one-stop init file. This is an issue to bring...