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How can I become a more "proficient" Emacs user? Esp. in regards to developing (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by MailRegular8914@alien.top to c/emacs
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I hope my question makes sense.

I am using Doom Emacs for a while now and have become fairly proficient. But I feel like whenever I am browsing emacs content online there are still many topics for me to discover. So I was wondering if there is anything that I might be "missing" yet which might help with my productivity or improve my development skills.

Sofar I what have learned, on top from my head:

  • Org/Org Agenda (refile etc.)
  • Magit
  • Vterm
  • LSP Commands
  • Multiple Cursors
  • Literal Config
  • Navigating Emacs itself (which key, debugging, reading Emacs-Lisp (abit))
  • Using Language specific commands, i.e. send buffer to repl
  • Using Undo with Vundo

Only thing I know that I still need to learn is beeing more proficient with vim keybindings, but with that I know where to start.

I know the question is quite broad, but maybe there some "killer features" worth to explore which I am not aware of yet.

I'd appreciate any input.

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[–] passionsplay@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

There's so many things you can learn from! Since you mention wanting to improve how you use Emacs for development, a couple of features that I use everyday and feel very "emacs-y:"

- compilation-mode (`M-x compile`) - It defaults to a `make` but the resulting buffer is useful for any sort of build/compile/test job that you want to spawn. For example, I'll use Projectile's `projectile-test-project` command (`C-c p P`) to quickly run jest tests for my TS projects:

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- occur - (`M-x occur`) I use this mostly as a persistent search buffer. Basically, you can list lines that match a search string and then follow and/or visit them in the corresponding buffer. I like that the numbers in the occur buffer give you a rough idea of where the search term is in the original buffer. Pressing `n`/`p` in the occur buffer advances to the next line as well as gives a quick highlight in the original buffer.