About to declare Emacs bankruptcy. Any advice for cool or new packages, defaults, or ideas I should use before I start building my init.el? Also interested in guides to using evil.

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  • org-evil

    Evil extensions for Org-mode.

  • I see that evil-collection says it provides minimal org support. It apparently integrates with org-evil and evil-org, but it's not clear to me if there's substantial differences between them.

  • evil-org-mode

    Supplemental evil-mode keybindings to emacs org-mode

  • I see that evil-collection says it provides minimal org support. It apparently integrates with org-evil and evil-org, but it's not clear to me if there's substantial differences between them.

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  • rune-emacs-config

  • I can also vouch for corfu and friends (Marginalia, Orderless, Vertico, Embark, Consult); the philosophy behind the way they're written is appealing and setting them up / extending them is pretty trivial. Embark and Consult are particularly great. [Relevant corfu config] [Relevant MOVEC config]

  • dirvish

    A polished Dired with batteries included.

  • The file manager Dirvish. You know how the veterans say that Dired is the best file manager? Well, with dirvish even mere mortals can agree. It has panes, a pretty UI, and even pdf preview through pdf-tools.

  • emacs-which-key

    Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup

  • install which-key. It's literally the perfect extension. There is no reason not to use which-key and you will be glad you have it some day.

  • evil-guide

    Draft of a guide for using emacs with evil

  • Evil is a complex machinery build by vim nostalgic refugees, so familiarity with Vim's modal editing model is still recommended. I like this, even if it's not a tutorial: https://github.com/noctuid/evil-guide

  • crafted-emacs

    A sensible base Emacs configuration.

  • You might like to take a look at crafted-emacs.

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  • P.S.: When restarting your config, consider a literate programming approach. I've started mine less than a year ago https://gitlab.com/vidbina/dotfiles/-/tree/reorg-for-lit-prog/emacs and tinkering and commenting out sections (or recalling what the heck I was trying to do) is a lot easier now.

  • embark

    Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps

  • The only reason not to have which-key might be if you use Embark and set up embark-prefix-help-command instead.

  • lambda-emacs

    Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions.

  • I am a professor in the humanities (philosophy) and I maintain a framework for Emacs (I don’t know if it rises to the level of “distro”) that is conducive to humanities work, including writing, notes, citations, a good ui, and basic programming. I’m happy to say more if you have any questions. https://github.com/Lambda-Emacs/lambda-emacs

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