after using vim for a long time I want to give Emacs a try – to work on OCaml codebases. I find the GitHub - ocaml/tuareg: Emacs OCaml mode README targeted at people who already know emacs, so I am lost. Also the $ opam install tuareg output works fine but puzzles me a bit, because it refers a fix…

It’s possible that what I’m about to suggest is … not useful to you, but just in case: If you don’t need LSP/Merlin, then might I suggest running Emacs locally on your Mac, and using tramp-mode to access remote filesystems ? I’ve been doing that pretty much exclusively for … 30+ years (before TRAM…

See GitHub - ocaml/merlin: Context sensitive completion for OCaml in Vim and Emacs . Have a look at OCaml - Merlin | An editor service that provides advanced IDE features for OCaml. I’m just discovering.

Since you’re coming from vim, I would recommend starting with Doom Emacs . It’s a configuration framework that comes with evil-mode, out-of-the-box support for OCaml (and many other languages) and nice non-archaic defaults. You can choose merlin or ocaml-lsp, and lsp-mode or eglot, with a single-line…

[image] mro: after using vim for a long time I want to give Emacs a try – to work on OCaml codebases. This is how I setup my Emacs (using caml-mode because I don’t use Tuareg). Begin by installing merlin, ocp-indent, caml-mode, etc, using opam: opam install merlin ocp-indent caml-mode Then…

There is also spacemacs, which as doom, has a one-line configuration for OCaml. Can be slow compared to vanilla emacs at startup if you have a lot documents opened. I do not know how it compares to doom.

Are there any advantages of using Caml-mode over Tuareg? I’m an emacs only user and I’ve been using Tuareg since I first started learning OCaml

[image] ttamttam: There is also spacemacs, which as doom, has a one-line configuration for OCaml. Can be slow compared to vanilla emacs at startup if you have a lot documents opened. I do not know how it compares to doom. Doom is supposed to be more lightweight, and uses a declarative (and m…

A bit off-topic, but if you are planning to use Emacs for real-life development, I recommend using vanilla Emacs with as little customization as possible. This works great on both Unix and Windows, is very fast, and if you ever find yourself without your init file (eg when ssh-ing into an unknown ma…

indeed i found customization often overrated, a nuisance to manage machines and leading to idiosyncrasies. Or as the fish shell puts it: “Configurability is the root of all evil” . I aim for an unambitioned setup and also look at others ( nano , micro ). I want it available on unixes, have syntax highl…

[image] nojb: This works great on both Unix and Windows, is very fast, and if you ever find yourself without your init file (eg when ssh-ing into an unknown machine) it isn’t a problem because you won’t depend on fancy extension packages. I think the particulars of your editor configuration w…

How to start with Emacs to work on OCaml codebases

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AFAIR there may have been in the past, but no longer. There’s a discussion about it here.

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