[Fluff] Sharing My First Experience Using Emacs (And a Tip on Using Magit with "dotfile" Repositories)

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  • magit

    It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.

  • A few days (and a lot of reading documentation and running rg and fd over Doom Emacs's source code) later, I have to say I'm impressed! I was expecting Emacs to be excellent, no surprises there; what I didn't expect was how passionate and active the community is. It's honestly inspiring seeing how much time and effort is being put into the various community projects, across the board. The only packages I knew I wanted to try were Magit and use-package, so I had a lot of fun exploring other packages. I was worried I'd quickly get overwhelmed, but the process was made so much easier with the help of: Emacs's self-documentation, Doom's source code and FAQ, the documentation provided by the individual packages and helpful answers and posts online.

  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  • Hello, everyone! As it says in the title, this is my first time trying Emacs (although, technically, my second time installing it). I had been using Neovim exclusively prior to that and absolutely loving it (I still do), but I always knew I wanted to try out Emacs at some point. A few days ago I heard about native-comp coming to Emacs 28, and given that the Nix emacs-overlay provided emacsGcc, now seemed like the perfect time to do so!

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  • emacs-overlay

    Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]

  • Hello, everyone! As it says in the title, this is my first time trying Emacs (although, technically, my second time installing it). I had been using Neovim exclusively prior to that and absolutely loving it (I still do), but I always knew I wanted to try out Emacs at some point. A few days ago I heard about native-comp coming to Emacs 28, and given that the Nix emacs-overlay provided emacsGcc, now seemed like the perfect time to do so!

  • use-package

    A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

  • A few days (and a lot of reading documentation and running rg and fd over Doom Emacs's source code) later, I have to say I'm impressed! I was expecting Emacs to be excellent, no surprises there; what I didn't expect was how passionate and active the community is. It's honestly inspiring seeing how much time and effort is being put into the various community projects, across the board. The only packages I knew I wanted to try were Magit and use-package, so I had a lot of fun exploring other packages. I was worried I'd quickly get overwhelmed, but the process was made so much easier with the help of: Emacs's self-documentation, Doom's source code and FAQ, the documentation provided by the individual packages and helpful answers and posts online.

  • ripgrep

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

  • A few days (and a lot of reading documentation and running rg and fd over Doom Emacs's source code) later, I have to say I'm impressed! I was expecting Emacs to be excellent, no surprises there; what I didn't expect was how passionate and active the community is. It's honestly inspiring seeing how much time and effort is being put into the various community projects, across the board. The only packages I knew I wanted to try were Magit and use-package, so I had a lot of fun exploring other packages. I was worried I'd quickly get overwhelmed, but the process was made so much easier with the help of: Emacs's self-documentation, Doom's source code and FAQ, the documentation provided by the individual packages and helpful answers and posts online.

  • fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

  • A few days (and a lot of reading documentation and running rg and fd over Doom Emacs's source code) later, I have to say I'm impressed! I was expecting Emacs to be excellent, no surprises there; what I didn't expect was how passionate and active the community is. It's honestly inspiring seeing how much time and effort is being put into the various community projects, across the board. The only packages I knew I wanted to try were Magit and use-package, so I had a lot of fun exploring other packages. I was worried I'd quickly get overwhelmed, but the process was made so much easier with the help of: Emacs's self-documentation, Doom's source code and FAQ, the documentation provided by the individual packages and helpful answers and posts online.

  • doom

    Doom Emacs config (by elken)

  • A few days (and a lot of reading documentation and running rg and fd over Doom Emacs's source code) later, I have to say I'm impressed! I was expecting Emacs to be excellent, no surprises there; what I didn't expect was how passionate and active the community is. It's honestly inspiring seeing how much time and effort is being put into the various community projects, across the board. The only packages I knew I wanted to try were Magit and use-package, so I had a lot of fun exploring other packages. I was worried I'd quickly get overwhelmed, but the process was made so much easier with the help of: Emacs's self-documentation, Doom's source code and FAQ, the documentation provided by the individual packages and helpful answers and posts online.

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  • Configuration

    Discontinued Configuration files and scripts. (by mohamed-abdelnour)

  • Speaking of Doom, I can't remember what I was looking for at the time, but I came across Doom's exit prompt, doom-quit. Admittedly, I'm not cool enough to understand all the references, but I loved it so much that I just had to find a way to include it in my configuration.

  • github-orgmode-tests

    This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

  • You should also take a look at org-mode.

  • mgsloan-dotfiles

    Linux and xmonad configuration files

  • I also faced the magit GIT_DIR thing. Details of my setup are here

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