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Emacs projects on GitHub

Emacs editor ecosystem, its configurations, and Org-based workflows.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred Emacs projects on GitHub are khoj (37.7K stars), the_silver_searcher (27.1K stars) and spacemacs (24.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Emacs repositories with 192.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was khoj, with +18 stars in a day.

12Projects

192.8KStars in total

+35Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+18

khoj

khoj-ai/khoj · ★ 37.7K

Khoj is an open-source personal AI — a 'second brain' that answers your questions from the web and your own documents, runs custom agents for you, and works with any online or local LLM.

core

doomemacs/core · ★ 22.8K

Doom Emacs is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs — fast, opinionated and modular, built to feel as snappy as a hand-rolled config. You can run it as-is or use it as the foundation for your own setup.

neomacs

eval-exec/neomacs · ★ 1.6K

NEO Emacs is GNU Emacs rewritten in Rust with a modern GPU display engine: the ~300,000-line C core is replaced by memory-safe Rust, aiming for 100% Emacs compatibility and 10x performance.

tatr

tsoding/tatr · ★ 450

Tatr is a lightweight, git-friendly task tracker that stores each task as a plain Markdown file inside a tasks/ folder, instead of requiring a full-blown issue tracking system.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

#1 · khoj-ai/khoj
khoj
Khoj is an open-source personal AI — a 'second brain' that answers your questions from the web and your own documents, runs custom agents for you, and works with any online or local LLM.
37.7K
#2 · ggreer/the_silver_searcher
the_silver_searcher
The Silver Searcher (ag) is a command-line code-searching tool similar to ack, built with a focus on speed.
27.1K
#3 · syl20bnr/spacemacs
spacemacs
A community-driven Emacs distribution: a polished, batteries-included Emacs setup focused on ergonomics, mnemonics and consistency. It is still in beta and welcomes contributions.
24.5K

4
dracula-theme
23.6Kdracula/dracula-theme
Dracula is one of the most popular dark color themes, built around a single consistent palette that has been ported to Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Vim, Sublime Text, JetBrains IDEs, Terminal.app, Windows Terminal, Hyper, Alfred, Slack, Xcode, Emacs, Zsh and over 400 other apps.
5
core
22.8Kdoomemacs/core · Emacs Lisp
Doom Emacs is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs — fast, opinionated and modular, built to feel as snappy as a hand-rolled config. You can run it as-is or use it as the foundation for your own setup.
6
rust-analyzer
16.9Krust-lang/rust-analyzer · Rust
rust-analyzer is a language server that provides IDE functionality for writing Rust programs — the code-intelligence engine you use while writing Rust in an editor.
7
awesome-tailwindcss
15.2Kaniftyco/awesome-tailwindcss
A curated list of resources for Tailwind CSS: official links, IDE extensions, tools, UI libraries/components/templates, and plugins.
8
LightTable
11.7KLightTable/LightTable · Clojure
Light Table is a next generation code editor built around instant feedback: it connects you to your creation as you work, and it is highly customizable.
9
nyxt
11Katlas-engineer/nyxt · Common Lisp
Nyxt [nýkst] is a keyboard-driven web browser designed for hackers — an independent, deeply customizable browser for people who'd rather type than click.
10
neomacs
1.6Keval-exec/neomacs · Rust
NEO Emacs is GNU Emacs rewritten in Rust with a modern GPU display engine: the ~300,000-line C core is replaced by memory-safe Rust, aiming for 100% Emacs compatibility and 10x performance.
11
tatr
450tsoding/tatr · C
Tatr is a lightweight, git-friendly task tracker that stores each task as a plain Markdown file inside a tasks/ folder, instead of requiring a full-blown issue tracking system.
12
org-timegrid
188Gleek/org-timegrid · Emacs Lisp
org-timegrid is an SVG week calendar for Emacs that reads timed timestamps from your Org files and writes edits back to their source headings, so you can create, move, resize, rename and remove calendar blocks with the mouse or keyboard.