UPDATE: M-h does the trick. Emacs is like another planet.

#LazyWeb: #DoomEmacs question: How do you get to the Info help screen from an Info document?

I have a brand new Doom Emacs install on Linux. I run emacs to fire it up. I hit SPC h RET to get the Emacs manual. It says If you are reading this in emacs, type 'h' to read a basic introduction to the Info documentation system. But when I type 'h' I see the message "Beginning of line", because it's reading it as a vim 'h' (go left one character).

What am I missing here?

@ballpointcarrot #doomemacs is great! I wouldn't worry about not building everything from scratch. Doom is also optimized in ways that would be nearly impossible for an individual to recreate in a from-vanilla config

Had some mounting frustrations with my work installation of #doomemacs . Decided to try wiping it and creating an #emacs config from scratch.

Stopped two hours later, realized that I was biting off way more than I could chew in one night, cleaned the library cache, and reinstalled doom. That's a "I'm on a sabbatical for a month" type of project 🙃 .

Went back from #doomemacs to my own #emacs configuration. There were just too many unknowns, too little documentation - basically too much magic.

I noticed a "kagi" link type in the list when I went to create a link in #OrgMode

I love @kagihq but I never added any Kagi specific support.

Asked Claude to tell me where it came from and what it was for.

Turns out, it is for the search engine, and it's baked into org-mode / #emacs (or maybe a #DoomEmacs add-on?)

That's pretty cool.

For my #writing i thought that #doomemacs was the right choice, because i thought it will be more easy for a non programmer like me. It was not. I was trying things that i've never understood and it became frustrating.

The best decision i've made was to restart with GNU #emacs following some tutorials. Now i have a simple config that works. And i've learned ... a lot.

I just love emacs

@jessebot You could start with one of the Emacs starter kits. Doom Emacs comes to mind first, it's already configured to use evil-mode (a vim emulation layer). See https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

#emacs #doomemacs

GitHub - doomemacs/doomemacs: An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker - doomemacs/doomemacs

GitHub

Should I start out with vanilla #emacs , #doomemacs, #spacemacs or some other flavor? More importantly: why.

Notes: 40% Colemak layout user. Coming from VSCodeium as main editor. I would want to go full Emacs eventually.

@tylerayoung @katafrakt I am really looking forward to the #Neovim and #DoomEmacs integration \o/
I think #DoomEmacs has thoroughly undone my #Plan9 conditioning.
Or maybe no longer using a #ThinkPad is the actual reason. All the touchpads I use are worse than the Clit Mouse TM. They are still better than having to reach for an actual mouse, but damn, I miss that red dot.