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This advice is fine for the first year or so, but afterwards I would start trying out various packages and customizations. There are packages that can make your

by jwr 7y ago

This advice is fine for the first year or so, but afterwards I would start trying out various packages and customizations. There are packages that can make your experience much better (projectile, swiper, ace-window, ace-jump, move-border, eyebrowse, winner, color-identifier-mode, off the top of my init.el). And, of course, if you do any programming at all, you should install magit immediately. It is the best git experience anywhere, on any platform, period. It is an unbelievable productivity booster, and people who haven't used it do not even appreciate what it can do (ever wanted to quickly apply a single diff from one of your stashes to your current code tree? it's two keystrokes). Approach emacs like you would a musical instrument: you are not expected to play the piano on your first day, and the first year will require some patience and training, but eventually you'll start playing those sonatas. [context: my Emacs init file has lines that are 27 years old]

b3n 7y ago
In case you weren't aware, winner-mode is now part of Emacs, and as far as I can tell the Emacs 27 tab-bar-mode makes eyebrowse redundant. For me project.el that ships with Emacs is enough for my project needs.
- jwr 7y ago
  Hmm. Do you mean that tab-bar-mode lets me have a full-screen Emacs (no UI elements whatsoever, as one does) and switch between window configs like if they were workspaces (which is what eyebrowse does)? If so, I might want to try it.
  - b3n 7y ago
    Yes exactly, by default it has a tab-bar UI element, but you just have to set tab-bar-show to nil and you can use it to switch between window configs without the UI.
cjauvin 7y ago
Typical Emacs user experience: sees a list of packages some other user likes, picks one with a name he finds intriguing (in my case eyebrowse), checks it, finds it cool, adopts it (possibly for a long time).
- jwr 7y ago
  I've done this so many times. This is why I name-drop packages :-)

by jwr 7y ago

b3n 7y ago

In case you weren't aware, winner-mode is now part of Emacs, and as far as I can tell the Emacs 27 tab-bar-mode makes eyebrowse redundant. For me project.el that ships with Emacs is enough for my project needs.

jwr 7y ago
Hmm. Do you mean that tab-bar-mode lets me have a full-screen Emacs (no UI elements whatsoever, as one does) and switch between window configs like if they were workspaces (which is what eyebrowse does)? If so, I might want to try it.
- b3n 7y ago
  Yes exactly, by default it has a tab-bar UI element, but you just have to set tab-bar-show to nil and you can use it to switch between window configs without the UI.

cjauvin 7y ago

Typical Emacs user experience: sees a list of packages some other user likes, picks one with a name he finds intriguing (in my case eyebrowse), checks it, finds it cool, adopts it (possibly for a long time).

jwr 7y ago
I've done this so many times. This is why I name-drop packages :-)