• Doom Emacs

  • Reasoning

    • Reasons for DOOM Emacs

    • Reasons why I want to use Emacs

  • Learning Goals

  • Shortcuts

    • Opening and closing files

    • Splitting views

    • Opening files in split view

  • Tabs

Doom Emacs¶

Please note! This is a living document and will be updated whenever needed.

Trying Emacs once again, this time around not a custom setup but DOOM Emacs

While learning I also keep this cheat sheet open: DOOM cheat sheet

Reasoning¶

Reasons for DOOM Emacs¶

• Fully setup for plugins
• Nice GUI setup from the get go
• A nice default key map to start with SPC h b b for a quick lookup on key bindings
• Nice starter theme to get going
• Sane default plugins
• Some kind of standard for initialization and configuration (not invented by me)

Reasons why I want to use Emacs¶

• Strong markdown support
• Distraction free writing
• Magit (GIT client)
• ORG Mode for notes
• Possible replacement for Visual Code

Learning Goals¶

In order for me to be comfortable enough to use Emacs the list below should at least be as easy to use as in other editors. For me that means, following a standard I’ve grown accustomed to. If this means I need to re-map keybindings I should be able to do so with minimum effort.

• Opening and closing files ^
• Quickly go to previous / next open files
• Tabs ^
• nice list with open files
• and “action” tool, in PHPStorm I can use CTRL - SHIFT - A to open actions and access everything I need
• Having a folder as “project” and being able to switch to these
• Splitting files or have multiple files open next to each other

Shortcuts¶

Opening and closing files¶

I try to stay as close to DOOM as possible and only remap when inconvenient.

Splitting views¶

Opening files in split view¶

I have enabled Treemacs, and from Treemacs this is easy.

Tabs¶

In order to have a nice tab bar, all I needed to do was open the init.el and enable tabs

So in Emacs:

ESC (go into command mode) -> SPC f p (open configuration file) -> init.el

And remove ;; from tabs

Now do a doom sync and restart Emacs.