I've been slowly building up a fresh emacs config and feel like I'm getting close to it being able to be my daily driver. I found Mastering Emacs to be a very u

I've been slowly building up a fresh emacs config and feel like I'm getting close to it being able to be my daily driver. I found Mastering Emacs to be a very useful resource though not a perfect fit for me for a couple of reasons: 1. Like you, I am coming from vim (or using vim bindings in any editor I use). evil-mode is great but the book is focused on vanilla emacs movements and text manipulation and so there's good chunk of the book devoted to that which wasn't applicable to me. 2. This is more of a nit, but I do get a general tone that the book sees having to use elisp as a kind of drawback. Maybe I'm reading too much into that, and it is certainly still the case that you will have to do a lot of configuration to get a setup that works for you. But for me my interest in lisp is part of what makes me interested in emacs so I wish it didn't shy away from it as much. That said I still found it overall worthwhile for understanding the building blocks and terminology. Also now is a great time to play around with a fresh emacs install. The 29 release has a bunch of goodies that make it easier to build towards and IDE-like experience with many out-of-the box pieces. It comes with a language server (LSP) client, native tree-sitter integration, and a nice declarative package management system that doesn't require any third-party deps (though you can swap the underlying engine to a third-party one if you need the extra features)