Emacs Doom Episode 1 - Getting Started

…mmend this series by Zaiste 0, he explains how to set up the environment and digs into org-mode which were my main concerns. I found the sections on projectile, magit, dired and avy very helpful. Now I am tempted to give it a try in one of my projects. The downfall so far is I didnt find an in depth explanation on how to grok it with python. 0 link to this video…

There is also Doom Emacs 1 which provides Vim experience out-of-the-box. It also comes with a fantastic theme. I've been using Vi/Vim for more than two decades now. Doom made me feel at home. I used to envy Emacs all these nice features such as Org Mode, Magit and even the ability to use Lisp to configure your environment. Now it's the best of both worlds. I just wish Emacs' onboarding process / cohesiveness was as good as in VS Code. It would be a dream come true. ;) PS. I've recorded a short Doom screencast for newcomers 2 1: link 2: link to this video

I think there's a lot to learn from starting from scratch, and it's something I hope to do too. Gladly! I'll keep the list to what I've studied so far. Here goes: - If you ever want to explore, say, Doom (Spacemacs is likely too bloated for someone who gravitates to a vanilla config), chemacs1 is a nifty, simple profile switcher - I think there's a lot of value in studying what they've done with their mnemonic keybinding systems (I love being able to narrow to an org-mode subtree and widen again with =, n= and =, N=, respectively, as but one of many examples) - Sasha Chua is a good source, as she's very knowledgeable and put out a drawn 1-pager2 on starting Emacs - it's geared towards st…

…oom E11: Org Mode - Custom Link Types] Zaist describes how to add a new link type using `org-add-link-type`. Note that `org-add-link-type` is obsolete since org-mode `9.0` but still supported. Since `9.0` we use `org-link-set-parameters` to add the links: ;; from the video (defun make-youtube-link (youtube_id) (browse-url (concat "link to this video youtube_id))) (org-add-link-type "yt" #'make-youtube-link) ; obsolete since 9.0 ;; since 9.0 (org-link-set-parameters "yt" :follow #'make-youtube-link) This allows us to open the following link `[yt:Febe4lUK5G4]` in the browser with `org-open-at-point` (bound to `C-c C-o` by default). In [Emacs Doom E12: Org Mode -…

…onday, it was all VIM navigation. A lot of your regular Emacs meta-stuff will still work, and for that, you can slowly start replacing with the spacebar-b key stroke for your buffer management, spacebar-p for projectile, etc.... Here's a couple of the videos I watched: 1) link 2) I've only watched a couple of these for the topics I'm interested: link to this video 3) for common VIM, I went with this: link 4) Recently, I found this guys short six-part series that gets you navigating around VIM fast, but he's an acquired taste: link There's still some things I like better about Emacs navigation and there's a lot I like about VIM navigation. I prefer Emacs crtl-a and ctrl-e for navigating to front a…