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.
Packages are a deep deep dive in emacs. My recommendation is start small, use doom as is for a while and only make a change when you actually find you need it. It’s very tempting to go way overboard.
This is why I switched from emacs to helix; my emacs config is just massive and my helix config gives me almost everything I actually want in like a few lines of config.
Yeah, I’m mostly taking the approach of adding things as I need them.
Didn’t know if there was anything worth looking into that I might not be on my radar as someone new to emacs.
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.