Bookmarks, Buffers and Windows in Doom Emacs

[@hlissner]

Hi! Your friendly neighborhood Doom guy again! You can resize the window in larger increments by prefixing the keybind with a number: `25 SPC w >` is equivalent to typing `SPC w >` 25 times. More useful than that may be the `SPC w |` and `SPC w _` keys. Prefix those with a number to resize the window to an exact size (horizontally and vertically, respectively). Alternatively, there's `SPC w o`, which zooms the current window (pushing aside all the others). Pressing it again restores them to their original sizes. Hope that helps! (Also, `SPC w` is aliased to `C-w` -- some folks seem to prefer that prefix)

[@markus-sagen]

Awesome

[@modaryaghi]

Hi, I am trying to get used to doom-emacs lately. Actually, I've been struggling with finding a way to adjust the frames as my needs, but just nothing what I got. I tried all your keybinds you suggested in your comments, all that I received is "can not resize the root window of a frame".

[@kennymccormic7578]

I use DOOM emacs as my primary IDE and I could not be happier. I just love space as a leader key philosophy, and together with evil mode there isn't really any other editor or IDE could offer the same ergonomics. Also, in the insert mode I use regular emacs key bindings to move cursor back or forward with Ctrl+f and Ctrl+b without leaving the insert mode and reaching for arrow keys, which is INSANELY convenient. Doom Emacs is a closest thing to pure perfection!

[@RushilKasetty]

You are absolutely on a tear of new videos, one every day for several weeks

[@danielakhterov]

Hey, I'm a vim user myself, but I'm really interested in what emacs has to offer. It would be swell if you can do more videos like these.

[@MrDadidou]

check out Magit. the git package of emacs. this alone is worth the switch

[@markus-sagen]

Same! Org mode and Magit are real selling points

[@tamanebp]

He touched the mouse! How scandalous!

[@AndersJackson]

Splits are windows, because they come from before you had graphical environment. And frames are what is called windows in a graphical environment. So Emacs Window is a split in a Emacs window. So Emacs Frame is a Emacs window. And it is reasonable if you remember that Emacs started where a 24x80 character terminal was all you had. :-)

[@vasiovasio]

Really useful video! Thank you Derek!

[@dacritter8397]

Did you custom define spc-o-p to open the side pane dired? I don't have that. That jey sequence is undefined. If I hit spc-o the list pops up but there is no p in there. It's undefined.

[@dkosmari]

If you want my suggestion about what makes one never leave Emacs: code editing. I code mostly in C and C++, and find the ability to make Emacs format my code very useful. After adjusting c-auto-newline, c-cleanup-list, c-hanging-braces-alist, c-hanging-colons-alist, c-hungry-delete-key, c-offsets-alist, cua-mode (because Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V should always be for copy-paste), and installing some packages for company+rtags autocompletion... and then binding some keys like F7 to recompile under cc-mode... every other text editor feels raw, clumsy.

[@THIRSTYGNOME]

As Vim user I have been enjoying these windows into Emacs, keep them coming! Side note, did you try out Neovim? I am currently using it as my DD by aliasing vi to neovim. I personally haven't made up my mind on the politics/ideology between the two projects

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Derek.

[@SenthilBabuji]

It is strange that doom Emacs don't have a transient state for resizing windows. But it should not be hard to configure. A transient state is a sub state where you can define different behavior for keys. For example you can configure 'SPC w r' to enter window resize transient state where your hjkl keys will resize windows until you press any other key to exit that transient state. That way you don't have to press 3 keys to just resize a bit.

[@gulzarsingh3681]

Amazing. Was looking for this navigation. One thing. If Tab bar is activated, sometimes the opened buffers don't show tab bar.

[@AtomToast]

This is nicely very familiar to a vim user. It's really mostly a reimplementation of vim in emacs together with emacs extensibility. The window shortcuts are the same in vim, just with ctrl instead of space. I do actually also have a bunch of buffer shortcuts similar to these set up due to my leader being space

[@dkosmari]

Quite a few of these are more convoluted than vanilla Emacs. "C-x 1", "C-x 2", "C-x 3", "C-x 0" does all the window splitting you'll need. Control + left click shows you a list of buffers, can also do "C-x C-b". "C-left", "C-right" switches between buffers. To navigate the focus through the windows, "C-Tab". I don't see the advantage of the weird keybiding in Doom Emacs.

[@DistroTube]

Honestly, even that is convoluted. Since the Vim bindings also work... :sp or :vs :D

[@dkosmari]

@@DistroTube But that's Evil!

[@chrzan9608]

Modal editing is more ergonomic cos you don't have to stretch your hands to reach those Ctrl/Meta keys too much or nearly at all

[@10cadr]

@@chrzan9608 thats what I thought when started using Emacs but got used to normal keybings really fast. Ctrl - x, C-c or Alt X arent that far apart tho.

[@chrzan9608]

@@10cadr still i find the Emacs way too much of a stretch finger-wise

[@jdiaz6]

You gotta post more on how to add plugins and such! please!

[@giorgiobraz3828]

Amazing!!! Thank you so much for this! 🤓

[@yousfisaad]

Hello, thanks for your videos... I have a trick to share with you, you can change the width of the frames using the keyboard, by writing a number of times to execute the 'adjuste command' for example, instead of typing 'space w >' 10 time, you can type 10 space w > this means repeate "space w >" 10 times

[@Noone-ig5ui]

Is there spacemacs equivalent to select windows? Instead of using SPC w w or SPC w hjkl, you cant just do ALT + 1, ALT + 2.... I am now exploring doom, planning to switch. Thanks

[@alex.graywolf]

I was thinking... if emacs can be used as a WM, Can doom emacs contain a X program?

[@devflanker9702]

Excellent !

[@reilly6187]

ive never used vim or emacs as of yet, should i just try out emacs seeing as it is more comprehensive. Keep using nano for small things XD

[@haroldtrotter183]

I have the error 'SPC o p' is undefined. How to fix this?

[@ArnaudMEURET]

The neotree module is disabled by default. You must uncomment its line in your doom/init.el then restart emacs.

[@binario4371]

Please do more tutorial about doom, there are actually just 1 (doomcast series). Specifically on orgmode agenda would be helpful, thanks!

[@ayushyadav5164]

SPC - o - p doesn't work for me!! help!

[@ArnaudMEURET]

The neotree module is disabled by default. You must uncomment its line in your doom/init.el then restart emacs.

[@ayushyadav5164]

@@ArnaudMEURET oh!

[@jissa028]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGLMkqahrch_hKM No need to use the mouse or type little by little. Just do: 10 SPC w > or 10 SPC w < This also works with the vim key bindings 10 C-w < or 10 C-w >

[@zerocoll20]

i used to love emacs, but it is so slow in my windows that i give up.

[@DistroTube]

>but it is so slow in my windows Something tells me that this has less to do with emacs than it does with Windows.

[@zerocoll20]

@@DistroTube yes, it's true. When i open it with WSL it runs well, but is a pain in the ass have to open WSL just do use EMACS, so i migrated to vim. If i compile emacs with clang it probably would performance better, but i hadn't tried it yet.

[@dkosmari]

@@zerocoll20 Did you try using the MSYS2 package?

[@zerocoll20]

@@dkosmari yep, it's slow the same

[@akshatvats7992]

@@DistroTube Am switching from vim, Emacs is slow in my Arch too... Especially scrolling with the mouse

[@AndersJackson]

Doom Emacs, is it based on Space Emacs? You should cover Open-mode (great making notes and code in) and Magit, which is git support. Which alone are a reason to learn Emacs, with or without real or vi key bindings. For my configuration for original Emacs, have a look at: gitlab.com/anders-jackson-hig/emacs-init Notice, it is set up form my, but you could look at the org-file to generate the documentation. Just type C-c C-e h o to see it in a web browser.

[@thengakola6217]

kill buffer :bd vert split :vsplit horz splt :split and many more are just like vim. You could do those instead of space and stuff

[@otavioschwanck6668]

Pure Emacs > Evil Mode

[@Andrath]

Emacs is a nice OS, but the default editor sucks.

[@otavioschwanck6668]

@@Andrath i'm a ex-vim user, started on emacs with evil. After this, i've learned emacs keybindings with some plugins (like expand-region). Now i code much faster with only with emacs.

[@Andrath]

@@otavioschwanck6668 Emacs keybindings give me carpal tunnel.

[@otavioschwanck6668]

@@Andrath its all personal preference, the important is use whatever you like.

[@Andrath]

@@otavioschwanck6668 Can't argue with that. :)