helpful VS solarized-emacs

If you want to programmatically create files, write to them, etc, then read the fine manual, it comes with your Emacs, has index, search and web-like navigation. It is well worth your time investing in looking up the manual, both for Emacs and for Elisp. You access the manual via C-h i. Another good thing to learn how to use is Emacs built-in help. As a minimal basic, C-h f will display information about functions, and C-h v will display the documentation for variables. You can also see where things are declared, open the source code, etc. A good alternative to built-in help is Helpful, which I suggest installing and start using too.

It tweaks Emacs GC. You can run M-x describe-variable while your cursor is at gc-cons-threshold to learn about it. If you opted-in for using "Vim bindings" (Evil mode), you can press K while in normal mode. Note that K doesn't run the describe- command in Doom, but it runs helpful-command from (https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful), which provides more context that describe- commands usually do.

The packages helpful and elisp-demos are super useful because they enhance Emacs' built-in documentation.

You can try to actually use helpful for a while. There was also a package with examples, I don't remember the name, perhaps someone else knows which I mean, that shows usage of a function where available. I remember using it and found it very useful for a while when I was learning elisp more actively. I still use helpful sometimes.

Once you got the hang of keybindings, which-key is a helpful extension (aka package) to Emacs. At this stage, there are other helpful packages and keybindings.

helpful for better help buffers

Since you seem interested, have a look at elisp-demos , too. It works in tandem with helpful.

Elisp Docs are fantastic they have documented everything while with CL most documentation is missing or only on the Web. With Emacs, one need to learn about C-h f (describe-function), C-h k (describe-key), helpful.el and elisp-demos and a new world opens. Terminology is always different, simple example: Microsoft terminology sounds like bullshit, to a Unix person.

Your primary source of knowledge will be the manual and the built-in discoverability (describe-* functions, or helpful) and of course reading the code. I'm not a manual person myself, but Emacs is one of the examples where it is truly excellent and has answers for almost everything.

I can confirm that the name of theme is solarized-selenized-white which included in solarized-theme.

Solarized Light (with Noto Sans Mono)

There is no reason to watch videos, it will be self-explanatory when you use it; you can't miss it. Once you have three or more windows in Emacs it will show you a number, just press the number, and it will switch to the window. If you install a nice theme that has theming for ace-window, such Batsov's Solarized (or any of other derivatives), you will get nice theming for those numbers, so they stick out too.

The first one looks like a version of solarized. I think I have seen some other screenshots of him using something similar to Solarized dark, but I don't know for sure. At least I see Batsov's solarized forked on his account.. I don't know if he has done any changes, I think he did, since his color scheme does not look same as mine, and I use same theme unchanged from Batsov. Those other themes can be just different color schemes that comes together with Batsov's port of Solarized (zenburn, etc).

Everything feels quite well integrated to me. I also use Solarized by Batsov which minimizes the rainbow of colours that some packages introduce, notably. Most of the time I use two windows side by side in Emacs, so *-dwim commands can auto guess when I copy/move some file.

For the looks, if you don't like built-in themes, I suggest you some of Batsov's themes. I am using his Solarized port, and I recommend it because he has gone to great lengths to customize external packages, which can give you a more uniform look with third party packages out of the box. You don't need to use the solarized color scheme, there are other color schemes included there. It might help you with looks of tabs. I don't use tabs myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if he has taken care of tabs look too.

That's how a lot of themes work. Bozhidar Batsov's version of Solarized has a slightly different approach to file organization: