emacs.d VS crux

My Emacs journey is from purcell/emacs.d, and then simplified it with use-package and Borg, and only keep the packages I need. Purcell's config is a very nice starter kit.

I prefer these functions from purcell's config because the last buffer is the buffer I want 80% of the time. https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/init-windows.el

Emacs demands you to learn it over a lifetime. That’s how it is, unless you give up to doom or purcell config or some other config maintained by a very knowledgeable emacs hacker.

Eight months ago, I saw this tweet from Steve Purcell, the maintainer of the famous purcell's emacs.d config. Seeing that he was left org-mode for a new tool, discouraged me from using Emacs and building my own config. It also encouraged me to try Logseq, which is one of the most popular PKM tools alongside Obsidian.

Steve Purcell's emacs.d satisfies this checklist. It's not as feature packed as Doom, so beginners should have a look at. Another is Kaushal Modi's .emacs.d.

If you want to use flycheck instead, may be you can have look the flymake-flycheck , and the author's Emacs configuration: https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/init-flymake.el

Steve Purcell

Have a look at Purcell’s (extremely popular) config: https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d

For those still on 28, crux-rename-file-and-buffer does the same thing (https://github.com/bbatsov/crux). I've been using it for half a decade at this point. This sort of command, that no other code will rely on, was never that important to get into core, and there's some merit in making people create the commands they needed. It's not like with the additions to subr and subr-x libraries (string-replace, string-search etc), which can't come fast enough.

Use vc-rename-file or crux-rename-file-and-buffer from crux

A similar functionality is in the crux package (see crux-delete-file-and-buffer).

How about https://github.com/bbatsov/crux?

Some packages I use for more effective text editing is crux for general text editing (video on crux), paredit for lisp editing and for org-mode:

I'll go with crux. It's not all about text editing, but it's got a lot of commands in dwim-fashion.

I learned the syntax of org-mode in an hour (maybe less), It has many superiorities to markdown (see this excellent essay). Emacs is a fully-featured tool, it's a lifetime of learning, just like all extremely powerful tools, you can see the blogs of many emacs experts like Bozhidar, Protesilaos, Karl Voit (to name a few) learning new features of Emacs quite regularly.