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An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker.

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It is a story as old as time. A stubborn, shell-dwelling, and melodramatic vimmer—envious of the features of modern text editors—spirals into despair before he succumbs to the dark side. This is his config.

This is a community for discussing Doom Emacs; an Emacs Framework for stubborn martian hackers.

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This will be my third time attempting to adopt emacs, but this time is different.

I’d decided to move away from VS Code and back to neovim with the intent of tying it together with my Obsidian files when I realized I could just be in one app all the time with org-mode. Also more inclined to learn emacs lisp now that I have experience with lisps via Clojure.

Any suggestions on packages to look into? Thanks.

Context: senior software engineer working primarily in Typescript, React, and AWS lambdas via Serverless framework. Into improving productivity and note taking with org-mode.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Honestly vanilla emacs is already pretty reasonable; doom will give you probably more than you actually need. I don’t think there’s anything you really need to dig into within your first six months.

I found doom to be too much, and after a few months instead built my own config from scratch to get just what I want. I found that doom had so much that I didn’t know what was doom and what was emacs.