A photo of what my Emacs looks like.

So you just installed Emacs(make sure it’s 26+!) and you want to see what all the fuss is about. Why should I use this instead of my vim/vscode/atom? While not only is Emacs extremely snappy, you can do *anything* in it — Doom Emacs even uses vim keybindings!. If something isn’t how you like it: the window opens on the wrong side, this character should place a closing character with it — that’s all fixable and programmable. The secret to this is Emacs is built on Lisp. While it looks scary, it can basically be boiled down to (function argument argument argument).

Getting started with Doom Emacs is dead easy.

[aria@Uranium ~]$ git clone https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs.git -b develop ~/.emacs.d Cloning into '/home/aria/.emacs.d'... remote: Counting objects: 45143, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (273/273), done. remote: Total 45143 (delta 402), reused 556 (delta 376), pack-reused 44494 Receiving objects: 100% (45143/45143), 11.97 MiB | 1.26 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (31322/31322), done. [aria@Uranium ~]$ cd .emacs.d [aria@Uranium .emacs.d]$ ./bin/doom quickstart Installing core packages

And let it run! Now, depending on your internet this could take from 2 minutes to 25! It’s downloading all the packages you need to get on your feet.

All done? Great! Launch up Emacs and hit M-x (Alt + x), type all-the-icons-install-fonts and press enter. This will install the icon font, so emacs doesn’t look like ass with massive icons everywhere. Now we’re ready to get started!

Press SPC-. to open the file chooser. Our first step would be to edit our config. While you can navigate to ~/.doom.d/init.el with SPC-. , you can also use SPC-f-p to search your ~/.doom.d for files and select one. Select init.el and we’ll take a look!