general.el VS .emacs.d

I can vouch for general.el[1]. It's easy to use and it integrates with use-package clauses, which-key and evil states. You can look at my config[2] for examples.

1. https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

If you need more fine-grained keybindings control use https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

If you're relying heavily on Evil states and leader keys I also recommend this package: https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

If I have to say one or two things about them, general's readme looks a lot and may be hard to grasp for starters who just want to bind keys. I want bind to be the go to package for newcomers and unify people who are just bored of typing define-key or okay with looping since bind is close to that simplicity yet being powerful due to its design. If you are missing something, please open an issue and see if we can add it.

For binding keys I highly recommend the package noctuid/general.el. Specifically binding to general-key-dispatch. Something like: (general-define-key :states '(normal visual) "/" (general-key-dispatch "/" 'ag-search :default 'evil-search-forward))

[1]https://jwiegley.github.io/use-package/keywords/ [2]https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

I use standard Colemak. I've added the following configuration to be able to exit insert mode by pressing l and h in sequence (that key combination is convenient to type, but still uncommon enough in most words, the main exception being localhost). (general-imap "l" (general-key-dispatch 'self-insert-command :timeout 0.25 "h" 'evil-normal-state)) The above code uses https://github.com/noctuid/general.el.

https://github.com/noctuid/general.el Keybinding and leader-key manager for Emacs. There are other packages but this is the best one imo - it even includes vim-style map commands.

Gonna drop a link to https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

(general is a keybinding helper package, not strictly necessary but way simpler than the default)

The second one is a little bit more complicated. For a number of packages I kind of abuse use-package/straight to separate out setup of different files/modes contained within the same package into their own use-package statement. Good example of this is my setup for helm. ) For example, after the normal (use-package helm …) statement, I have the below which configures helm-files related stuff, which comes from helm-for-files.el within the helm package:

siren-tab-bar.el

If anyone is curious of the hacky solution I used to have in my config, here is the comment where I initially replaced it with an earlier version of yank-indent.

I’d like to throw my personal vanilla config into the hat as a point of reference/starting point/inspiration: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d

Oldest commit: Aug 27, 2011

My config uses/has use-package, straight.el, lsp, company, magit, tree-sitter, doom-themes, doom-modeline, vertico, marginalia, consult, treemacs, undo-fu, GitHub Copilot, projectile, vterm, smartparens, yasnippet, diff-hl, and more.

I did a similar thing with yaml-mode highlight queries in my config before the highlights were merged in. You can see the relevant commit in my config here: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d/commit/ebbdab36fb2a3d635d591cc3179b8f4ed9a476d0

I'm two months in (without any programming experience) and I've gone through various re-writes (from a literate .org init to a modular setup akin to Emacs Prelude or Siren configurations. (See: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d)