Doom Emacs

“switched to Emacs and Doom + eVil, and am relieved to be back in a nice stable system again”

“It strikes a really good balance between sane defaults, and easy expansion.”

“they hinder future customizability because you'll be fighting against your config”

“I haven't felt the need to customize almost anything since I switched”

“Doom suffered (for me) from a lot of complexity, assumed emacs knowledge, and confusion for how to customize.”

“but I like Doom's core macros - map!, add-hook!, defadvice!, undefadvice!, etc.”

“I feel like I am depending on a huge bunch of code and configuration I might not really even need”

“doom or whatever is an entire extra layer of code and idioms on top of that”

“some other distro like Doom Emacs or Spacemacs or stuff like that, if they are after a better out of the box experience”

“Doom Emacs, and other approachable "distributions" are the way to make the power of Emacs accessible.”

“everything mostly just works other than some color scheme weirdness I had to fix”

“that config gave me the opportunity to stay in Doom Emacs for 98% of the time”

“if you start out with a kit like doom emacs, you’ll be largely insulated from that.”

“showed me what was possible, what I liked, and what I really had no need for”

“I use a doom emacs overlay that uses pgtk so it works flawlessly on wayland”

“Doom emacs and Spacemacs are both good starter kits to give you an idea of what you could do.”

“modernizing frameworks like Doom / Spacemacs only add to the complexity”

“The modal editing of vim, doom etc always struck me as pointless typing”

“The key bindings out of the box with something like Doom emacsx is a big selling point too.”

“these editors will be around for the next 1000 years and you wont need to fight against some BS features”

“with Doom I didn't have to cobble together a functional config from scratch.”

“If you're accustomed to vi modes, Doom Emacs is very approachable.”

“I built my config on it for years, and am happy with my current setup”

“cryptic setups that are wrapped in "convenience layers" that obscure details”

“There Doom Emacs was not stable. Sometimes it just crashed and one time I even lost a whole function I wrote”

“Doom is configured from the get go as a gateway from vim/neovim into emacs, and it does that job very well.”

“so many things are already installed/configured that you end up using them without any real "under the hood" understanding”

“it definitely helped to streamline the beginner phase where vanilla would have felt overwhelming”

“it starts with Vi keybindings by default (I quite disfavour modal editing”

“Rationale was that it'd be mostly pre-configured to a sane standard”

“This will give you a Vim like experience with basic project management.”

“the benefit is largely in discovering the absolutely vast plethora of features”

“Doom and Spacemacs are IMO sufficiently good abstractions that you will almost never need to have understanding of the underlying system and to fix things.”

“I found DistroTubes literate DoomEmacs Config a good starting point to see whats possible.”

“I suggest trying out Doom and maybe some other configs to see what's available”

“Don't use doom etc, just standard emacs, otherwise you won't have any understanding of what is happening and how to fix it.”

“The problem with learning heavily customized distributions like Doom is that they won't be installed elsewhere”

“it still includes a lot of emacs black magic that makes emacs much faster”

“I would recommend just using Doom especially if you are coming from a Vim background.”

“Doom is still a good reference for which packages people find interesting”