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This is a nicely timed article, i'm thirsty for emacs. I dived into emacs in janurary 2021 fully using doom emacs. I started doing scrum and meeting notes in o

This is a nicely timed article, i'm thirsty for emacs. I dived into emacs in janurary 2021 fully using doom emacs. I started doing scrum and meeting notes in org, then find myself slowly switching existing notes over to it. i keep all my emacs configs from ~/.doom.d in git and can easily bounce from machine to machine. Setup is pretty easy and i've found to have the same emacs experience where I go.

amichail 6y ago
Don't you think an org-mode for TeXmacs would be even better?
- dan-robertson 6y ago
  Why would it be better? Org-mode can generate latex output but the whole point is to be a more human-readable markup format than latex. Org-mode can also convert your equations to images and display them inline.
- BostonEnginerd 6y ago
  TeXmacs is a great looking piece of software, but I've never understood the name. I don't think it uses TeX underneath the hood, nor does it use Emacs.
cwlb 6y ago
I switched to Spacemacs around the same time you picked up Doom and dropped Spacemacs for Doom around a month ago. I'm not really a note taker, and I haven't picked up org yet. I actually uninstalled it before I realized that all the Doom docs are written in it and without org-mode you can't follow links XD
- jacobmoe 6y ago
  I've been using spacemacs for a while, haven't looked into doom. Mind telling me why you decided to switch?
  - teodorlu 6y ago
    I also switched from Spacemacs to DOOM. I've decided to stay. Reasons: - DOOM Emacs is fast. Fast to start `emacs --daemon`, fast UX with the default config. - I've experienced DOOM Emacs to be more cohesive than Spacemacs I still keep my Spacemacs config around, but I haven't touched it in ... almost a year now.
  - tharne 6y ago
    The startup speed of DOOM Emacs is outstanding, as others have noted. Additionally, I've found adding my own customizations is much easier in Doom than Spacemacs. While the Spacemacs "layers" approach is nice for setup, it can become very brittle when you start hacking on it yourself. Some of that could also be due to my own lack of skill with elisp, though.
    - stjohnswarts 6y ago
      I enjoy the way Doom is organized. You can overcome any startup timing problems in emacs by using daemon mode whether it's doom, space, or stock.
w0m 6y ago
I tried to do a dive into emacs in the Dec 2020 because of what i read a bout Org, but i just hit too many stability issues on my MBP with Doom - just went back to vimwiki after 2 wasted evenings. :/ Maybe someday.
- ipnon 6y ago
  Didn't click for me until I needed to work on a Pinebook Pro that didn't have the juice for VSCode. After a full day of working with Emacs I'm a convert. The hardest things to grok were minibuffers and how every named command run with M-x is just an Elisp subroutine. After that Emacs just feels like a huge library of text manipulation functions, ergo, Editor MACroS.

amichail 6y ago

Don't you think an org-mode for TeXmacs would be even better?

dan-robertson 6y ago
Why would it be better? Org-mode can generate latex output but the whole point is to be a more human-readable markup format than latex. Org-mode can also convert your equations to images and display them inline.
BostonEnginerd 6y ago
TeXmacs is a great looking piece of software, but I've never understood the name. I don't think it uses TeX underneath the hood, nor does it use Emacs.

cwlb 6y ago

I switched to Spacemacs around the same time you picked up Doom and dropped Spacemacs for Doom around a month ago. I'm not really a note taker, and I haven't picked up org yet. I actually uninstalled it before I realized that all the Doom docs are written in it and without org-mode you can't follow links XD

jacobmoe 6y ago
I've been using spacemacs for a while, haven't looked into doom. Mind telling me why you decided to switch?
- teodorlu 6y ago
  I also switched from Spacemacs to DOOM. I've decided to stay. Reasons: - DOOM Emacs is fast. Fast to start `emacs --daemon`, fast UX with the default config. - I've experienced DOOM Emacs to be more cohesive than Spacemacs I still keep my Spacemacs config around, but I haven't touched it in ... almost a year now.
- tharne 6y ago
  The startup speed of DOOM Emacs is outstanding, as others have noted. Additionally, I've found adding my own customizations is much easier in Doom than Spacemacs. While the Spacemacs "layers" approach is nice for setup, it can become very brittle when you start hacking on it yourself. Some of that could also be due to my own lack of skill with elisp, though.
  - stjohnswarts 6y ago
    I enjoy the way Doom is organized. You can overcome any startup timing problems in emacs by using daemon mode whether it's doom, space, or stock.

w0m 6y ago

I tried to do a dive into emacs in the Dec 2020 because of what i read a bout Org, but i just hit too many stability issues on my MBP with Doom - just went back to vimwiki after 2 wasted evenings. :/ Maybe someday.

ipnon 6y ago
Didn't click for me until I needed to work on a Pinebook Pro that didn't have the juice for VSCode. After a full day of working with Emacs I'm a convert. The hardest things to grok were minibuffers and how every named command run with M-x is just an Elisp subroutine. After that Emacs just feels like a huge library of text manipulation functions, ergo, Editor MACroS.