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I've been trying out Doom Emacs recently. I'll admit that I have used Vim and Emacs for reasonable periods of time previously so I am somewhat used to their way

I've been trying out Doom Emacs recently. I'll admit that I have used Vim and Emacs for reasonable periods of time previously so I am somewhat used to their way of doing things but Doom is nicely prescriptive and gives a great vim first experience. There is a bit of getting used to it but it might be something interesting for you.

whalesalad 6y ago
> Doom is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs tailored for Emacs bankruptcy veterans who want less framework in their frameworks, a modicum of stability (and reproducibility) from their package manager, and the performance of a hand rolled config (or better). This looks pretty neat.
- richeyryan 6y ago
  I'd say the things to look out for are: - Keybindings aren't comprehensively listed anywhere (that I know of) - You have to go to the individual packages that are loaded and figure out how to use them - There is some discoverability where if you type C-w you'll start to see all the window related keybindings, so you can at least get into the habit of checking there when you forget something - I'm used to using C-c to return to normal mode in Vim which doesn't work here so my suggestion is to use C-[, jk or ESC I guess - Autosave is disabled by default due to a preference of the maintainer, so you'll want to install a package or tweak the config to enable that - I find window management difficult right now compared to something more conventional like VSCode or even compared to something like i3, it just doesn't seem to do what I want Overall I'd say its like good guard rails but you'll probably need to dive into Emacs stuff to accomplish certain tasks. With that said, the vim emulation is miles better than what's available in VSCode. There is also Spacemacs which aims to be much more comprehensive but I haven't tried that.

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I've been trying out Doom Emacs recently. I'll admit that I have used Vim and Emacs for reasonable periods of time previously so I am somewhat used to their way

by richeyryan 6y ago

whalesalad 6y ago
> Doom is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs tailored for Emacs bankruptcy veterans who want less framework in their frameworks, a modicum of stability (and reproducibility) from their package manager, and the performance of a hand rolled config (or better). This looks pretty neat.
- richeyryan 6y ago
  I'd say the things to look out for are: - Keybindings aren't comprehensively listed anywhere (that I know of) - You have to go to the individual packages that are loaded and figure out how to use them - There is some discoverability where if you type C-w you'll start to see all the window related keybindings, so you can at least get into the habit of checking there when you forget something - I'm used to using C-c to return to normal mode in Vim which doesn't work here so my suggestion is to use C-[, jk or ESC I guess - Autosave is disabled by default due to a preference of the maintainer, so you'll want to install a package or tweak the config to enable that - I find window management difficult right now compared to something more conventional like VSCode or even compared to something like i3, it just doesn't seem to do what I want Overall I'd say its like good guard rails but you'll probably need to dive into Emacs stuff to accomplish certain tasks. With that said, the vim emulation is miles better than what's available in VSCode. There is also Spacemacs which aims to be much more comprehensive but I haven't tried that.