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Easy migration from vim? (retrolemmy.com)
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I've been using vim/Neovim since 1999, and the amount of muscle memory that I've built up is deeply ingrained. I'm thinking that it may be time to branch out a bit and try my hand at emacs. How would you recommend dipping my toes into the emacs tackle box?

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

ditching vim bindings is taking a step backwards.

Vim bindings are objectively both more productive and more ergonomic. So use evil mode anyway (doom emacs has it by default)

I can't give you a details 1:1 migration guide since I'm trying this myself and still don't know some stuff about emacs.

  1. Doom is pretty good, start with it
  2. Forget about other emacs stuff like email, irc client, games, wm, etc. Focus on editing and development part
  3. Emacs has "modes" which are not like vim modes (insert, visual, normal). They give you new "abilities" that are related to that file or buffer you are working with.
  4. Expect emacs to be much slower and more laggy than Neovim