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Emacs Doom Episode 1 - Getting Started

Zaiste Programming · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Testing, debugging & developer tools

What it is

A short first episode in Zaiste's Doom Emacs series, showing how to get started with Doom, an Emacs configuration aimed at Vim users. It presents Doom as a polished, fast, batteries-included distribution.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN users recommend the series to newcomers learning Emacs, Doom, org-mode, projectile and magit.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “To get started I highly recommend this series by Zaiste”

    Series on setting up Doom and org-mode, projectile, magit, dired.

    gtpedrosa, 2020-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?”

  2. “I've recorded a short Doom screencast for newcomers”

    Short Doom Emacs screencast for newcomers by the commenter.

    zaiste, 2019-03 · Recommendation · in “A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust”

  3. “Zaiste Programming makes Doom videos[4], but I find them useful regardless of my config”

    Zaiste makes Doom videos useful regardless of config.

    chairfield, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Making Emacs Popular Again”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: emacs, doom emacs, vim keybindings, editor setup, screencast

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