About a year ago, I tried Doom Emacs. I watch a YouTube channel regularly and he uses Doom Emacs all the time when editing his config files and whatnot. I believe he uses it for other things now as well.
I’m coming from Geany and I do use vim a lot so that’s why I’m trying to use Doom Emacs because it works very similarly to vim. I have used Doom Emacs. I’m using Doom Emacs now quite easily because of the vim like command structure.
So, my issues the last time using Doom Emacs was I would look at other peoples config.el and packages.el files and try to get stuff to work but it doesn’t work. Sometimes it cripples Doom Emacs and I can’t use it. So I have to use vim or Geany to remove what I added in order to make Doom Emacs work again. Even though I copy everything verbatim what I see online (either typing it all out manually with a video or copy/paste from a website), it still doesn’t work. I actually crippled Doom Emacs so badly the last time I couldn’t even fix it. I was really upset about that too. I had completely broken Doom Emacs. I’m attributing this to the fact that what I’m seeing is 2+ years old.
So my realization is, with Doom Emacs, something has changed within that 2 years which is making these older sites and videos irrelevant. I think that assumption is correct. But I can’t verify this completely because I don’t know enough about Doom Emacs to know what it’s pulse is like (if that makes any sense).
I’d really like to stay with Doom Emacs this time because I think I can learn to use it every day but it’s going to take a completely different learning process that what I’m used to (videos and online tutoring sites). I just need to know what makes it tick.
What’s the best way for a new(ish) user with lots of vim experience to learn Doom Emacs? I’ve been looking at the Doom Emacs website. I know a lot of you are going to say ‘Use the Doom Emacs website’. I’m like that with the Arch Wiki. I get a lot of great info on the Arch Wiki when looking for certain programs to install.