What I find unique about these videos is how you give deep reasoning about the choices you make or try to explain the logic behind the various packages. Most documentation elides this kind of background knowledge, which leaves the users wondering the whys. I was really glad that you put into words your frustration about the jumping minibuffer size. I've realized that I prefer popups - live ivy-posframe - over a rubbery minibuffer, but didn't know why. Describing it as motion sickness inducing is very revealing and will help me to explain this issue to others too! I've also realized that having the completions appear above the input line in the minibuffer further reduces this effect, though it would be confusing if it would be a candidate selection area, not just a preview. Maybe we should just put the minibuffer and even the modeline at the top instead, like the document tabs in modern GUIs? Why are these at the bottom? PS: I wanted to support you for all this marvellous work, but unfortunately PayPal doesn't work for me. How else can we support you? Can you enable sponsoring on your Github account?

A brilliant vlog (as usual). Very helpful and thank you.

@Richard Saunders Hello there! [on switching from Vim] My general approach was to keep an open mind and not try to reproduce what I already had. The idea was to not be biased and to avoid dogmatism: I did not want to, say, dismiss some workflow I had never tried in earnest. So after starting from scratch with zero expectations and with no delusions of turning Emacs into a powerhouse of productivity from day one, I began learning new things and re-considering my habits at the time. Now to your questions: + No, I do not miss Vim's model, even though I thought I was a "Vim-everywhere" kind of user (I had Vim keys for all my programs). It turns out that I am fine with the Emacs style for key bindings. I do, nonetheless, remain of the opinion that key bindings are not essential to the "Emacs way"---using evil-mode will still grant you access to an editable, introspectable, transparent platform that you can adapt to your needs. Also watch: Why Emacs itself is my “favourite Emacs package” - protesilaos.com/codelog/2020-10-21-emacs-favourite-package/ + Yes, I do remap several of the default keys, though my methodology is in line with how they were defined in the first place. + As for your question about the Vim refugee, I would tell them that (1) evil-mode works and there is a large community around it, and (2) I would ask them whether they have ever tried to challenge themselves into doing things differently---if not, then they might want to use the switch to Emacs as an opportunity to do so, just how I did. Somewhat relevant article: Comment on Unix versus Emacs - protesilaos.com/codelog/2020-12-28-comment-unix-vs-emacs/

Mind truly blown. I see a dot emacs rabbit hole approaching.

I've just started trying to move from Doom Emacs to a self-rolled configuration yesterday. It's been one hell of a journey so far, because I want to try out some newer stuff and not just put in all the things I didn't even know I used, but rather learn about each and every package I pull in. Your video opened up a whole new world to me! It's great to see someone customize and utilize emacs like the immensely powerful editor it is, and knowing what they're doing. I think that while going down the spacemacs or Doom emacs route is nice for beginners, it hides how Emacs itself works in too many places. Thank you very much for this stunning presentation and insight :)

Thank you for your work and being such an excellent ambassador for Emacs. This video was really good, and even though I'm a helm user myself I will most definitely be looking into Embark and its companions for future use, or maybe to complement my helm workflow.

Thank you so much for this new video. Much appreciated.

Thank you very much for your work.

The more emacs videos you make, the more you look like Richard Stallman :D

Hi Prot! Thanks for the really good vlog and the clear explanations. Would you mind adding "chapters" (youtube's information in the progress bar) to the video? You can just update the description and write something like : 0:00 Packages presentation 4:55 Orderless 10:47 Embark (per-item actions) 18:15 Embark (per-set actions) 27:32 Consult 36:03 Marginalia 37:09 A system I can understand 46:04 Further info Cheers!

interesting and insightful. Obrigado 🤝

Is it possible to priview files after find file by consult-find? Without close minibuffer.

Hi Prot! Great vlog as usual, thanks for it! I've just switched from Helm to the Vertico-Consult-Embark combo after watching it. One thing I'm missing though is the ability to call `projectile-switch-project` and have an Embark action to open Dired in the directory of the project I want to switch to. Could I add an Embark action to quickly jump to the target directory?

!!! WOW !!! THANK YOU !!!

Thank you