My Emacs Adventure - Part 2

If Emacs and me had a relationship status, it would say: "It's complicated".

From the start, we didn't liked each other that much and it even put my hand at risk (see Part 1 )

Doom-Emacs did so many things at once and gave me so many options, that it would probably take me months/years to get to know them all. This is the reason why it's complicated, it just can do so much more than I want from it.

When I'm writing something, I mostly need syntax highlighting aaaaaaand that's it. Emacs did show me a way how I can do it potentially faster and better organized.

But only cause it might be faster and better organized, doesn't mean that it fits into my workflow. Everyone has his workflow and no matter what you use, if you are comfortable with it, use it. Don't let anyone say things like:

• You should use ProgramX cause it works better
• Use ProgramX it looks so much nicer than your old thing
• ProgramX is so much faster to work with

Use what works for you. Those people are not the ones doing your job, you do that. Of course there's always something better, faster, prettier and what not, but does this matter to you?

Discussion about what program is better can be made in an objective manner. Like discussing topics like:

• CPU usage
• Memory footprint
• and so on

Other topics like:

• better organized
• easier to handle
• prettier

are completely subjective.

Doom-Emacs and me will work together for a longer time and I will try to test out as many things my time allows me to do.

What I really love so far:

• ORG-Mode
• git integration
• docker integration
• being able to run a shell command from within Emacs
• viewing PDF's from within Emacs
• Playing Teris (...)

I will not write a list of what I don't like so far, cause those things are probably changeable anyways.