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macrostep
- use-package: does :defer t loads a package based on its autoloads?
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Do people tend to misuse the :init keyword of use-package?
Yes. Most people seem to use use-package without really understanding what it's doing. I love use-package, but I never edit use-package declarations without macrostep (also (setq use-package-expand-minimally t)) to see what it expands to.
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What packages do I need to for the best elisp editing environment?
Macrostep made me 10-20x faster at diving into, profiling, and debugging emacs lisp codebases.
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Does the use-package ":bind" command bind the keys to the global key map if it doesn't contain the "map keyword?
Try macrostep to interactively expand these nested macros.
helpful
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How to "touch file" in dired mode?
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.
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Is doom emacs still actively maintained?
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.
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Quickly learning some LISP basics for using emacs?
The packages helpful and elisp-demos are super useful because they enhance Emacs' built-in documentation.
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Is the official GNU Emacs up to date?
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.
- Helpful: Better Emacs Help
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Best emacs configs for Javascript and/or users who don't like to memorize keybindings?
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.
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Doom -> vanilla emacs 29
helpful for better help buffers
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Emacs terminology
Since you seem interested, have a look at elisp-demos , too. It works in tandem with helpful.
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Good short documentation for CL functions (etc.) available?
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.
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What's the Best Way to Learn Emacs?
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.
What are some alternatives?
speed-of-thought-lisp - Write elisp at the speed of thought. Emacs minor mode with abbrevs and keybinds.
emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup
lisp-extra-font-lock - Highlight bound variables and quoted expressions in lisp
elisp-demos - Demonstrate Emacs Lisp APIs
marginalia - :scroll: marginalia.el - Marginalia in the minibuffer
use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs
solarized-emacs - The Solarized colour theme, ported to Emacs.
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
remacs - Rust :heart: Emacs
current-window-only - Open things only in the current window. No other windows, no splits.
json-ordered-tidy - A fancy JSON tidier that can arbitrarily order object keys
delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output