Doom Emacs

Learning Doom Emacs

Sources:

• DistroTube Doom Emacs Videos (mostly top 20 videos)
  • What Are The Benefits Of Emacs Over Vim?
• Emacs Doom Screencasts by Zaiste Programming (select videos you don’t know about)

Doom Emacs On Day One (Learn These Things FIRST)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37H7bD-G7nE

• Emacs Daemon, Server

  • Can add start up on desktop startup:
    • Look for Start up applications
    • Add example /usr/bin/emacs –daemon
    • Restart session
  • Launch emacsclient -c -a ‘emacs’
  • Launching emacsclient easier:
    • In shell: alias emacs=emacsclient -c -a ‘emacs’
    • In desktop: add emacsclient.desktop

• Open / find files

  • Can use vim way with :e <file> with tab completion
  • Use find-file or SPC .
  • Find recent files: SPC f r

• Split screen:

  • Evil: split - C-w v, return to other split - C-w w
  • Doom: vertical split - SPC w v, close - SPC w c, other split - SPC w w

• Kill buffer: SPC b k

• Spelling and Languages support in Doom: init.el

• Reload Doom configurations after init.el changes: doom-reload or SPC-h-r-r

• Configurations in Doom: config.el

  • Add packages

• Buffer management and switching

  • ibuffer: SPC-b-i
  • switch buffer: SPC-<

• dired file manager

• Terminals: recommend using - vterm or eshell

Installing Doom Emacs

# Install Doom
cd ~/.config
git clone https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs.git emacs
cd ~/.config/emacs/bin/
doom install

# Start Emacs from Doom configuration
emacs
## or
emacs --init-directory ~/.config/emacs

### Other Commands

# Upgrade
doom upgrade
# Upgrade only your packages
doom upgrade --packages
# Build after Emacs version upgrades
doom build
# Check health of Doom and dependencies
doom doctor