Doom Emacs On Day One (Learn These Things FIRST!)

Many Vim users find Doom Emacs overwhelming at first, because of the orgy of documentation. There is so much to learn! Don't worry. You don't need to learn everything on Day One. If you already have a strong foundation with Vim commands, then you are almost ready for Doom Emacs. But here's a few other things you need to know on Day One.

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[arshadpakkali]

Youre making the emacs community bigger single-handedly

[moonlightfilms]

Just wanted to thank you for your eMacs videos! Had a really bad experience my last semester in school a few years ago, and stepped away from my computer engineering degree with just 2 full semesters left. Your videos helped me remember my original interest getting into computers when I was a kid, installing linux on an old compaq pc, and learning web development, some Java, and then Objective-C. Excited to be back on track, Org mode has also helped a lot!

[atomicozzy]

I was just watching Zaney's stream because I missed it and was getting confused with starting out and then I saw the notification of your video. Thanks DT!

[paarthjuneja]

DT, you got me into Doom Emacs many months ago, but due to the lack of a proper 'guide', I went back to Vim. Just yesterday I installed Doom Emacs again, and I get this video. Thanks!

[johnhansen]

Hi DT, love your work.
Just if anyone have the same problem as I did on ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Emacs 29.4
The path was now :
export
Took only 2 days to figure out.
Keep up and greetings from Denmark :)

[edbeckerich]

I knew a little VIM, hearing VIM was required helped a lot..I turned to your old VIM Tutorials, and now I can use Doom Emacs pretty handily...I could run those VIM Tutorials daily

[AeriaVelocity]

I love Doom Emacs, I switched to Neovim then back to Doom and I missed it so much

[axelandru]

This guy's aura is out of bounds. You seg fault just trying to be as high as this guy is...the accent, the enthuziasm..is just so contagious !

[charliekim]

I am young at 70+ but feel old when nobody talks about (and praises) nedit. It is an old motif editor, largely ignored by most younger generations. Block copy (or cut) and paste is one of the most essential features of an editor, and nedit (or, xnedit if xorg fonts look too ancient) does it better than most, if not all, other editors. Although nedit (binary) may be found in major pkg repositories, xnedit is still build-it-yourself program. However, once one gets a hang of it (in a few days?) nedit or xnedit, both under 2 MB size, he/she will find what a really good text editor is like.

[ArnaudMEURET]

A DT video like we used to love. 👍 Informative. Realistic. Mature. Without the overly provocative title and thumbnail. And most of all no clickbait goofy face ! 🤩

[ryce]

You know emacs is crazy when half the video is learning how to launch it.

[carlogilmarp.s.]

I'm beginner in Emacs and I love this video! Thanks a lot!

[trungtri]

Damn I just started to learn Doom Emacs and you released this. Really appreciate you DT.

[jackt-zm]

Joseph is working on the ESys. It provides enough libraries and syscalls to use emacs, emacs lisp etc. It is a bsd-like kernel and system that should be available ~2024

[usopenplayer]

Please make a part two. You have finally convinced me to try Emacs. I'm playing around with it, but I don't feel productive at all, and you are by far the best person at explaining this.

I'm very curious to understand how to open projects, save buffer layouts, execute and debug code.

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Hi Distrotube!! Here's a random fan!!
Love your work. Just love it. In your worst days, know that yor work saves people.

Riju

[yasserkerbache]

Thank you Derek for a great introduction!

[ahanmondal]

A very good video. please make a part 2

[josgraha]

this is awesome, been a neovim user but back in the day i was familiar with emacs and loved it, lost all my muscle memory but this is fantastic, thank you sir!

[BobDoe_]

Thanks for the gentle emacs intro for the plebs btw