yay-evil-emacs VS outli

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.

I had the same experience as you, and wanted nice automated headings, so I wrote outli. It's mostly a thin wrapper around outline-minor-mode, and is much simpler that outshine, dropping many vestigial features, and adding org quick-keys at heading positions.

I actually use my simple outli package for this, with folding, narrowing to sub-tree and org-style quick-key navigation. It does help a lot with a single large file.

It may also be worth taking a look at outli which provides org-mode-like navigation and structure editing via your comments.

I actually wrote a substitute for a pretty large and largely unmaintained package (outshine) called outli; it relies heavily on outline-mode and not much else.

This is what outline-mode is designed for. If you always want the same style of heading in various modes, and you want your headlines to have depth for hierarchical folding (e.g. // top level, /// next lower level, etc.), you might check out my little mode outli.

outli is a simple outliner mode which makes it easy to outline, fold, navigate, and restructure your code, documents, or other buffers. It offers nice headline styling, org-like speed-keys, imenu support, and more.