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

Doom Emacs .editorconfig error

When receiving an error like the following on Windows operating system, the error is likely due to carriage return (CR) characters on Windows.

EditorConfig: (editorconfig-error "Error from editorconfig-get-properties-function: (error \"Error while reading config file: ~/.config/emacs/modules/editor/file-templates/templates/.editorconfig:1:
    [*]
\")")

Fix

Open the file that is part of Doom Emacs at ~/.config/emacs/modules/editor/file-templates/templates/.editorconfig and remove the CR characters. Save the file and restart Doom Emacs. The editorconfig-get-properties-function function should now run fine on Windows with the CR characters removed.