yay-evil-emacs VS all-the-icons-ivy-rich

That said, I found that setting up evil wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. If you want to see how simple it can be, you can take a look at the pull request I linked in the original post. I can also recommend taking a look at this config for another example of how setting it up can actually be very simple: https://github.com/ianyepan/yay-evil-emacs

I personally also maintain a lightweight config with better defaults, aimed at new Emacs users, perhaps it could help you too: https://github.com/ianyepan/yay-evil-emacs

And here for an unopinionated literate config I maintain: https://github.com/ianyepan/yay-evil-emacs

I suggest you look at other publically shared configs and "distributions". E.g. yay-evil-emacs is one such "distribution", and is different from the author's personal config.

If you feel lost in basic customization of Emacs, perhaps my project yay-evil could help. It's fairly simple to follow (if I may say so myself) and has over 270 stars -- so at least quite a few beginners have found it useful.

This is not a video styled tutorial, but I actively maintain a yay-evil framework aimed at beginners to help them build their own vanilla config. Feel free to give it a try! https://github.com/ianpan870102/yay-evil-emacs

I'd check out Yay-Evil and Corgi.

The package I showed in the screenshot is actually this one though: https://github.com/seagle0128/all-the-icons-ivy-rich

You can find it on all-the-icons-ivy-rich

Having been a longtime user of ido and smex, I decided to give ivy/counsel a try. Overall, I like it very much. I like that the key-bindings are more consistent with Emacs conventions, and I like how it can be extended with packages like ivy-rich and all-the-icons-ivy-rich to add useful auxiliary information and give it a more modern looking interface. But there are still a few things that I can't wrap my head around, and for which I couldn't find a satisfactory answer online: