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Doom Emacs for the Power User

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James Y.
James Y.
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Some indespensible resources that I used to learn and configure my Doom Emacs instance.

Misc​

  • Restarting the Emacs server: emacsclient -e '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'
  • SPC p k: Kill all project buffers
  • SPC p p, SPC p a, SPC p b, SPC p f
  • SPC /: Search within project
  • SPC TAB k, M-[123]: Workspace

Doom Emacs Cheat Sheet​

This cheat sheet is especially useful for learning Doom Emacs. Lot's of cool tips and tricks!

Treemacs​

Minor modes​

  • Indent-guide mode
  • Git mode (Extended)
  • Follow mode

Dired mode​

Vim​

I won't go in-detail, but here are some really useful mechanisms to look up in Vim (assuming familiarity with basic Vim fundementals):

  • Markers
  • Registers, specifically C-r, "
  • Multi-cursor replacement
  • :e!: Reset all unsaved changes
  • Using C-r, " to paste from clipboard when in command mode, especially useful for using / search
  • gd: Go to Definition (requires LSP)
  • za: Toggle folding

Complimentary Software​

Vimium​

This is a browser extension that will allow you to use Vim hotkeys to navigate the browser, e.g.: (/, h, j, k, l, o, d, u) Pro-tip: In the o search menu, use C-j or C-k to navigate without using the arrow keys.

GitHub Copilot​

alias ghask='gh copilot explain'
alias ghcmd='gh copilot suggest'
alias lg='lazygit'

i3wm​

My config: https://github.com/voidranjer/dotfiles

Roadmap​

Nix​

I'm trying to solve the problem of sharing my org files as easily as a Google Doc — M. Farabi

Emacs and Doom Emacs depend on a number of external packages. As well, if you plan on adding your own configurations that make use of external libraries, Nix helps with this.

Nix is a package manager with a completely different approach to package management (compared with the standards, like dpkg, dnf, the AUR, etc). I will not provide a whole argument for Nix here, but the tldr is: by packaging your Emacs config into a Nix package, it will work on virtually any Linux distro.

Pending Research​