Youre making the emacs community bigger single-handedly

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!

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!

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!

Your videos about Emacs are great. Tons of information and the pace is also great. Thanks!

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 ! 🤩

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.

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

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.

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

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

Thank you Derek for a great introduction!

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

Crazy, I just downloaded yesterday. This is great! Thank you!

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

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

Pretty nice video; I've been wanting to give Emacs a shot for a while and this makes the transition a little smoother.

I never got around to learning Emacs, but now I've installed Doom, so I hope to get used to it. Thanks for the guide.

Honestly, I only recently ditched Doom Emacs and Emacs altogether and switched back full time to Neovim. The reason being that some plug-ins would not update in months (some MELPA stuff that simply wouldn't install), and more importantly, Doom breaking completely on any Emacs updates via pacman. Error messages are anything but helpful, and I really don't have the time to read into the nuts and bolts of ELISP. So I'm back with Neovim and my terminal applications (and occasionally Neovide for quick drag-and-drop file access; thank you for showcasing it, I love Neovide).

A very good video. please make a part 2

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 PATH="$HOME/.config/emacs/bin:$PATH" Took only 2 days to figure out. Keep up and greetings from Denmark :)

This video is such a valuable resource for the community. Thanks Derek!

Looking for this for a long time!

A veteran vim user, but I am checking out emacs and loving it.

You are AWESOME!!!! Been trying to learn emacs for a long long time - only now, I'm able to edit and run a program - you are a rockstar!!

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

Oh yeah! Nice intro! Can't wait for day two:)

Thanks for the gentle emacs intro for the plebs btw

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!

Thank you DT, you rock!

really love your stories about emacs, thank you

Thanks for making this video. Great introduction to doom

Thank you for such a great introduction, DT! I'm looking how to improve my development workflow and interested mostly in using dev extensions(lsp and etc) + org mode. But currently, while I see a great power and flexibility in org mode, I don't see anything Emacs does actually better than vim in terms of development experience(extensions and etc). In my last try when I installed spacemacs I was terrified by a startup speed :) In neovim there are treesitter and lsp client available out of the box and it remains fast and responsive. Could you please cover at least initial set-up for development? Like - Picker UI like telescope for nvim. Telescope is awesome. - Simple setup for the language server and maybe format on save and so on - Maybe some snippet engines? Because luasnip for neovim is incredibly powerful and I see no competitors from emacs world I understand this is a large surface to cover, but showing some of the aspects at least briefly might be very helpful. Anyway, thank you for your hard work, and I'm glad I found your channel.

Just installed emacs to try after this video.

Great video about emacs! I will learn emacs again and I think I will love it this time.

Nice video DT, I going to try this application 👍

7:30 Pro tip: just create a script ~/.xsessionrc and set execute bit and it will be automatically executed when you login to graphical desktop, no matter which desktop manager you use. Just make sure your script actually exits as fast as possible (e.g. fork to run all the slow stuff) or your desktop login will be slow.

Awesome detailed thorough explanation dude! I am wowed so far! Thanks for your video

Outstanding! Incorp[orated these ideas into my existing Doom Emacs setup.

Been a vi/vim user for 30+ years, 2 weeks of your videos that I'm been rewatching, I'm now being converted to the Church of Emacs.

14:15 - After setup; here we start actually using Doom Emacs.

Emacs changed my life.

my man ran vim in an Emacs video

My main struggles with emacs has been getting it to work like any normal IDE, where file browsing is restricted to the project directory you opened (I think that's what projectile does but I couldn't figure out how to configure or use it). I'll have to try again some time. Probably struggled more than I had to because I barely ever interact with windows and buffers in vim, because I just use my window manager for that.

Another great video thanks DT.

One year ago i tried to use emacs i was using doom day one first hour i gave up, now with this video i'll try again on the wekeend!!

@ Makes a video for complete doom emacs beginners. @ Says “repeat everything after me” @ Proceeds to edit .bashrc in vim like a boss Legendary

Learned even more on the 2nd view.

I used Emacs versions 3.x (maybe?) in the late 1980's - early 1990's. And since then, I've forgotten most of it. Isn't my memory great! It forgets what is not needed right now as fast as it learns new stuff. I believe I should be called an Emacs n00b nowadays. But I'm still thinking I should maybe reconsider.

Thanks for your work, dt!

Thanks for share! I'm not using console editors, but nice to listen good knowledge man ;)

I had to restart my emacs daemon entirely in order for neotree to work ( ps -ax | rg emacs && kill -9 THE_PID_FOR_THE_DAEMON )

How to use Doom Emacs: - play Doom soundtrack in the background - old-school, 2016, Eternal, doesn't matter - crack open a beer, or a white Monster if you're fancy enough - binge-watch the entire DT Emacs playlist

I have bookmarked this and one other DT video in firefox under "Nerd-stuff/screwing-with-my-head". My gihub bio reads "I've been fooling with Linux for 20 years, I remain a fool. Currently trying to learn Emacs, god knows why, I think I need therapy." Thanks DT for all your open source content (I think). x

I’ve never seen anyone more passionate and very knowledgeable and articulate when explaining everything emacs and doom emacs. Thanks a lot for this video 🫡

After trying to figure out how to make the application for the emacsclient to open in gui mode, i came to the solution of "your shit out of luck". at least for the most recommended port of emacs for mac, however other's seem to have good luck with emacs-plus through homebrew. Oh well, guess I can't save those extra seconds of launching the gui applications...

Superb, just what we needed to know, Thanks

Love Doom Emacs you can find so many uses for it. Great video buddy. Oh BTW, I would imagine you already know but the purple bar beneath your menu's on your website are not changing for DTOS, Knowledge Base, Linux Manpages, Community and Contribute. Just in case you didnt, I thought I would let you know.

I install neotree but it cannot be opened, says that the file or directory, neotree, does not exist. [edit] I solved restarting the emacs server

I think regular GNU Emacs is a superior long term solution as it prevents you from developing a crutch with Doom and not understanding what's going on.

I ain't using emacs, but I have probably watched all of your videos on emacs. Is a testament to your content. Vim do miss you tho bro.

I'm feeling powerful

Nope. I've never even considered Vim. But I might be interested in Doom Emacs.

Cool. I think I might have to check this out, but I'm probably too used to Spacemacs. For example 'SPC - b - d' is still more natural for killing a buffer, even though 'SPC - b - k' makes more sense, despite it being years since I used it. 'SPC - a - d' is as good as 'SUPER - .' for me. I'm just getting back into Emacs/Cider (after using VSCode/Calva for a while). I was always using Spacemacs and honestly the only advantage I'm seeing here is startup speed. I'm assuming utilizing 'straight.el' could close the startup time gap, combined with some of your suggestions. I mainly use vim keybindings (solely in Emacs, I'm a Windows user), but Spacemacs' 'Hybrid Mode' gives the best of both worlds.

Why not use your particular system's init system to autostart the emacs server for you? If you use systemd you can just create a unit for the user (not global, use a user unit) and it doesn't matter what WM or DE you use or not at all and the server will be available for you! I'm sure other init systems will offer something similar or even better. SysV init and openRC do at least.

The new camera angle always makes me feel like he's going to rap about fire safety

This aint "tech" this is "ART" fq DT dammit I love you; i wish I had 1% of your knowledge; dammit fq

DT, you are a very great man. Thanks God for having you. I've decided to follow you on steps get ready to use emacs. I'm a vim power user and since you prefer emacs I told myself why not. let's try this, maybe better than vim. Agian, thank you for all these great videos. By the way, I've decided to give testing Debian a try. Now I'm running on that. Have you ever tried it? I think testing repo of debian is more stable than Arch and packages are not that old of regular Debian. Please let us know what's your opinion on this distro. Thanks man

I am halfway through the video and its still installing...

This apparently is not working for me for the current version, it doesn't start the doom emacs even after installing doom emacs, it still starts the default emacs, on using emacsclient,

You probably also want to set environment variable VISUAL and maybe also EDITOR to the emacsclient value. Then emacsclient will start whenever a program want to use an editor.

I'm trying out doom emacs out for the first time coming from regular emacs and the number one thing I ran into was evil mode. 5 minutes of WTH is going on with the key mappings before I realized it seemed to be Vim like and thankfully I knew what to look for in the config file

Siiiigh... here I go again attempting to learn doom-emacs again because DT encouraged me to... i wonder how long until i switch back to vim THIS time..

When you defined the "emacs" alias, why did you do it in .bashrc instead of .bash_aliases which is sourced by .bashrc for that purpose?

don't forget that to access a file with sudo you can use tramp /sudo::/path/to/file this also works with ssh

My doom emacs doesn't have a ~/.doom.d folder. Just Installed doom emacs

doesnt not work. install git installs 2.17 version instead of latest 2.42. how do you install latest git version?

I'm coming from a background of only ever using "user-friendly" editors (Notepad, Nano, Pluma, occasional grudging compliance with VS Code at work, etc). I'm interested in putting in the work to learn to operate a "hardcore" editor like Vi/Vim or Emacs. Would Doom Emacs be a good entrypoint to these, or do you have some different recommendation?

I use spacemacs. Tried to switch to doom-emacs, but some keybindings and features in spacemacs make more sense to me. I would appreciate a comparasion video doom-emacs and spacemacs.

thanks very well explained

lol ... well i have now shifted fully from nano/pico to vim. That was quite a move. Will I go to emacs now? i'm curious too

Goooooood jooooooob!

I would not have use emacsclient, just I would used 'emacs' icon or 'emacs -nw' in console and ready to go. People should think that all that complicated configs are necessary, but they are not, just for the record.

your a legend buddy

Hey I didn't get a init el file I did get a example file but upon copying it to init el and modifying it no changes are applied on reload

I seem to have to kill the daemon and restart it any time I add a package in order to get it to work... I asked on reddit and they say this is normal but you don't seem to need to do that at all. Anyone have any ideas? I am doing SPC-h-r-r, but that only makes the functions available through M-x. If I try to run them it can't find the proper file until I kill the daemon and restart.

An Emacs intro that uses Vim to edit files 😅 I usually do that as well. And stay at this stage 😂

neotree doesn't work with the server-client-method. It says all-the-icons isn't installed and keeps saying this after installing this package

This was a good introduction, which will surely help a lot. Thanks! Unfortunately I still rely on windows for a lot of things which I have found won’t work at all in Linux, so I settled on running eMacs using WSL. Tried to run eMacs in windows natively and I found it to be extremely limited in what it can do.

Thanks for your videos. I'm a nvim user and recently tried doom emacs for the bidirectional language support it offers. But unfortunately it is absolutely laggy when the file contains persian characters.

Gotta love them bots

I don't get it, how the most of the cryptic keycombos can be faster than the 'old school' GUI style with mouse and standard keyboard control. I tried using vim for textediting with many addons and config lines and after 4 weeks vim only it's still not faster. Pressing v and many hjkl to mark text passages, *+y to copy to clipboard to use it in another app... But I love Goyo and seoul256 ... I doubt emacs will make any difference for me and my workflow. Its just bigger and uses more cpu/disk of my system. I think it's better for devs, than writers.

Thanks!!

Trying to start emacs after setting up the daemon just opens a normal emacs scratch file the only way I am able to open doom is via doom run in the terminal. Any help would be much appreciated!

I can tell within the first few minutes this series is going to be great. The official documentation for Doom Emacs is very, very unfinished, almost everything is still at the "TODO" stage as of 21/10/2023 rendering it completely useless.

Excellent video. Im at a stage where i am scripting, taking notes, learning, watching youtube or films. Im looking for one application to do it all. VScode does scripting and note taking but i found micro better at doing both. Then there is vim but its a text editor. We can script and take notes too. So i am bouncing around trying to find one application that I don't have to break my fingers trying to do things. I guess at this stage, i should be using the gui apps, but i like tinkering with the command line and have an affection for the command line. So recently, have been bouncing back and forth with vim. I understand its very powerful as a text editor, and can be customized to its hart content. But i don't have 10 years to give to become proficient in vim. Im 60+. So i want to get in and do the stuff. I think emacs is interesting because its an all in one. If i choose emacs, i will no longer need all the apps. I had obsidian for notes, micro/nano/vscode/vim for scripting, then firefox for web, thunderbird for email........ I think its just crazy!!! So im thinking maybe reducing my app and learning them until i master them!!!! So i will be watching and following along on your video journey about emacs. Thanks by the way for taking the time to help us!!!! Patrick

You should actually add aliases in the .bash_aliases file. That is being run by the .bashrc. Putting it in the .bashrc is actually a bad form.

Very useful walkthrough👍

Love it. Thanks :)

I just took my first dip this evening in installing doom and emacs (completely new) because a friend is a huge fan. now I m trying to set up my bashrc but I seem not to have one? I tried to create one on my home folder but the one-liner was not executable. do I have to install something bevor I actually have a .bashrc? best regards!