.emacs.d VS awesome-emacs

After a month or so, if you're still curious, try https://emacsrocks.com/

17 small length video tutorials of great quality (as informative as fun)

https://emacsrocks.com has lots of quick/digestable demos. This one is a favourite https://emacsrocks.com/e13.html (the ending is great, stick with it).

If anyone's looking for short demos, the https://emacsrocks.com shorts are great. My all-time favorite is https://emacsrocks.com/e13.html (well worth watching the ending).

Emacs Rocks! - A bunch of cool short videos that showcase cool tips and tricks.

We will mainly look at 3 packages: s.el, f.el and dash.el. Two of these packages (first and last) are maintained by Magnar Sveen, who are also known for Emacs Rocks and What The .emacs.d (which are still great resources for learning and finding inspiration for your Emacs configuration!). We will also look at ht.el. These packages are used a lot in many of the Emacs packages you use in a day to day basis, like lsp-mode and rustic just to name a few. As most of these already have tons of examples in their READMEs, my main goal of this article is to inspire you to check them out. Hopefully you will know of one new package after reading this article :)

Emacs Rocks!

Maybe you've seen them already but there's also http://emacsrocks.com/ videos, emacsconf too

“A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.” https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

I've used emacs for about the same (started with microemacs in the 80s). I also had an extremely crufty init.el and recently decided to start over. I compared 19 emacs distributions (from this list and this r/emacs post). I looked at

But, to be honest, I think it simply is not for everyone. But sure one thing is lacking (as far as I know): a metatutorial. Like a big "chart" telling people what can be done with Emacs (with a few examples), something like https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs for newcomers.

Awesome-emqcs is a great resource for knowing what packages are there: https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

For packages, Checking what people in the community commonly use, such as in https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs/ or checking packages for review in Doom Emacs helps a lot in selection. There are also great guides, such as Kristoffer Balintona's https://kristofferbalintona.me/categories/guides/. Personally, my bias in selecting packagges is towards the ones that integrate well with built-in Emacs functionalities. I could provide you a list if you want.

Take it slowly, check some packages that seem like they might be useful to you: (check https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs out for example).

Awesome Emacs for utility-oriented packages

Awesome Emacs, a community driven list of useful Emacs packages, utilities and libraries