Emacs Doom Episode 1 - Getting Started

Why HN readers recommended it

HN users recommend the series to newcomers learning Emacs, Doom, org-mode, projectile and magit.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Zaiste Programming

Topic

doom emacs

Format

tutorial

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I have started using emacs in 2016 because of org-mode. It was powerful enough to make me use emacs on a daily basis since them. However, I have been using RStudio/Sublime as IDE/editor, not emacs. Curiously last weekend I have found a video about org-roam …

• There is also Doom Emacs [1] which provides Vim experience out-of-the-box. It also comes with a fantastic theme. I've been using Vi/Vim for more than two decades now. Doom made me feel at home. I used to envy Emacs all these nice features such as …

• I think there's a lot to learn from starting from scratch, and it's something I hope to do too. Gladly! I'll keep the list to what I've studied so far. Here goes: - If you ever want to explore, say, Doom (Spacemacs is likely too …