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Welcome to Emacs! - I write about Emacs things fairly frequently: https://xenodium.com https://xenodium.com - I started making Emacs videos recently: https://

Welcome to Emacs! - I write about Emacs things fairly frequently: https://xenodium.com https://xenodium.com - I started making Emacs videos recently: https://www.youtube.com/xenodium https://www.youtube.com/xenodium - For aggregated Emacs blogs, check out https://planet.emacslife.com https://planet.emacslife.com - For aggregated Emacs videos, https://emacs.tv https://emacs.tv - The Emacs subreddit can be handy too https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs - If on the fediverse, follow the #emacs hashtag - Sacha Chua's Emacs News are great https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news With respect to "modern", maybe these two posts could be of interest: - Visual tweaks: https://xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-candy https://xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-candy - macOS tricks: https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos Enjoy the ride!

chipotle_coyote 1y ago
Sort of side question, but why do you set the command key to be Emacs' meta key? I've sort of waffled on that myself -- the plus to doing it is that it matches Windows (which I am in too much of the time) and Linux, but the minus is that it not only breaks 20+ years of muscle memory I have with MacOS, it collides with a few other global hotkeys. (Recent collisions I've noticed are Alfred's clipboard manager, which defaults to Shift-Command-\ (M-|, shell-command-on-region), and the system-level screenshot hotkey on Shift-Command-5 (M-%, query-replace).
- xenodium 1y ago
  Ah yes. I find the ⌘ key placement a little more ergonomic/convenient, but at the end of the day, pick whatever works for ya. Thinking back, I prolly didn't use those two commands often enough to internalize M-| or M-% bindings, so the system-level handling didn't bother me. While I do replace things all the time, I typically use multiple cursors (I do use bindings for that). If I need querying, I just type `M-x que RET` which gets picked up by a completion frameworks (in my case ivy). Relatedly, I also use Hammerspoon on macOS and set some global key bindings using the ⌥ key.
- hibbelig 1y ago
  For the keys you don’t need to type quickly, M-x can also be typed as ESC x. For any character x. So it works well with M-|, but not so well with M-f, for example.
dolearning 1y ago
As a Mac vim and Obsidian user, I've normally explored Doom when I've dipped my toe in the Emacs waters. Would you recommend starting from a less customised install and build up from there?
- xenodium 11mo ago
  I’d say if you feel comfortable with Doom, keep at it. Coming from vim, it may be a smoother transition. You can always reconsider at any time. Doom is Emacs just as vanilla is.

chipotle_coyote 1y ago

Sort of side question, but why do you set the command key to be Emacs' meta key? I've sort of waffled on that myself -- the plus to doing it is that it matches Windows (which I am in too much of the time) and Linux, but the minus is that it not only breaks 20+ years of muscle memory I have with MacOS, it collides with a few other global hotkeys. (Recent collisions I've noticed are Alfred's clipboard manager, which defaults to Shift-Command-\ (M-|, shell-command-on-region), and the system-level screenshot hotkey on Shift-Command-5 (M-%, query-replace).

xenodium 1y ago
Ah yes. I find the ⌘ key placement a little more ergonomic/convenient, but at the end of the day, pick whatever works for ya. Thinking back, I prolly didn't use those two commands often enough to internalize M-| or M-% bindings, so the system-level handling didn't bother me. While I do replace things all the time, I typically use multiple cursors (I do use bindings for that). If I need querying, I just type `M-x que RET` which gets picked up by a completion frameworks (in my case ivy). Relatedly, I also use Hammerspoon on macOS and set some global key bindings using the ⌥ key.
hibbelig 1y ago
For the keys you don’t need to type quickly, M-x can also be typed as ESC x. For any character x. So it works well with M-|, but not so well with M-f, for example.

dolearning 1y ago

As a Mac vim and Obsidian user, I've normally explored Doom when I've dipped my toe in the Emacs waters. Would you recommend starting from a less customised install and build up from there?

xenodium 11mo ago
I’d say if you feel comfortable with Doom, keep at it. Coming from vim, it may be a smoother transition. You can always reconsider at any time. Doom is Emacs just as vanilla is.