DOOM Emacs intro

2022-11-16

I've always been shuffling around neovim, emacs, vscode. This writeup will explain how I've settled on the use of emacs. DOOM Emacs specifically.

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It's github page is accessible DOOM Emacs; documentation here and installation for all platform are accessible here.

DOOM Emacs is a batteries included edition of emacs. Together with which-key and easy language enable features (layers), it has a very intuitive experience which is ideal for the beginner (to command line editior altogether!) I think DOOM's got a clean modern funky interface too.

The one thing it's lacking is a newbie friendly guide/intro to using it. In contrast to my opinion; the developers' hold that DOOM is for an experienced emacs user. I beg to differ as stated above.

To help with this user onboarding issue, when I've tried to pick up usage, I've scoured the internet to put together a single sheet1 summarising all the essential commands. Accessible here.

Let me know down what's you favourite newbie friendly emacs edition is?

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That's all the familiarity it requires. That's how intuitive it is!