To create my customized configuration I am using existing the items noted below. This is just me taking other people’s work and blending them together with small tweaks to fit my needs and preferences.
To make understanding emacs easier, I use a blend of my own customized version and also using distributions. The problem with only using distributions is if something goes wrong or if you want to customize something, it is much harder to get to the bottom of what is going on. Doom Emacs and spacemacs are both really excellent and they are a great tools for many people. I still highly recommend them if you want a distribution. I use them both, but I find spacemacs keybindings to be especially well structured. They help you discover new features and streamline various workflows. I use spacemacs on one of my computers the setup is super well designed.
I had to update my emacs because my home linux machine emacs was not working all the time, so I have a variation I setup in my dot files and I moved the original to here.
- redguardtoo emacs.d
- Crafted Emacs - A sensible base Emacs configuration.
- This configuration is my new base for my personal configuration. This is nice because it helps you learn emacs lisp and some of the emacs concepts, but also gives you structured starting point and lots of options that you can use or you can ignore.
- Casual Suite - Casual porcelains (Casual Calc/Dired/Avy/Info/Isearch)
- Dot-Emacs - Snosov1
- Emacs for You (Emfy)
- Emacs-Org-Mode-Tutorial
- Org-Mode-Better-Defaults
- Wakib: Emacs for the rest of us (I stopped using the wakib keybindings, but the Emacs starter configuration is very helpful. I only stopped because I like being able to also use neovim or plain vim in addition to Emacs.)
- matman26 - emacs-config
- matman26 - youtube playlist
- reddit post vim YouTube channels
- evil read the docs
- emacs wiki evil
- noctuid emacs/evil for vim users guide
- F12 key to turn on evil mode (default is evil mode is on) - once you press this once it will say E-ON so you know it is enabled
- F11 key to turn off evil mode - once you press this once it will say E-OFF so you know it is disabled
- If stuck in a menu in Emacs try the following - Ctrl + g and / or ESC ESC ESC (three times in a row) - if that does not work you could be in a recursive edit so then do CTRL + ] first and then try one or both of the C-g / ESC x 3
- in dired use capital E to launch in windows explorer / linux explorer
- ;; In an emacs lisp scratch buffer you can run this code to double
- ;; check value of variable:
- ;; (message “Current fill-column value: %d” fill-column)
- ;; M-x display-fill-column-indicator-mode
- ;; to show vertical line at the fill-column
- ;; highlight text and press ALT-q to fill text to that width (emacs mode)
- ;; in evil mode press gw or gq to do the same