I have been using emacs since about 2017. I used Spacemacs for a time before fully switching to Doom-Emacs sometime in 2018. Much thanks to Dxnn for showing me spacemacs in the first place.
When I first started I had no idea what I was doing. Elisp seemed incomprehensible (I had yet to learn Scheme or Clojure). Elisp is still a bit of a mystery for me. I'm quite happy tinkering from time to time, but have yet to need an full breadth of knowledge of the language.
Emacs and Org Modeº are a big part of my electronic productivity. I wrote House of the Lakeº in emacs/org mode, do all programming in it when possible and use it for task management and time-tracking.
Still, I am often discovering new things I can do!
Misc. Notes
Using GPG with Emacs.
This one took a little while (and is OS dependant, and GPG ver. dependant.)
(require 'epa-file) (custom-set-variables '(epg-gpg-program "/usr/local/bin/gpg")) ; you may have to specify which version of GPG you have installed. (epa-file-enable)
To make emacs ask for the password EVERY TIME you open the doc you need to change the TTL for password caching in GPG itself.
For newer versions (v2.1+), disable password caching for the agent by creating ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and adding the following lines:
default-cache-ttl 1 max-cache-ttl 1
Then restart the agent: echo RELOADAGENT | gpg-connect-agent
Ignoring Directories in Ivy/Projectile
Sometimes (seemingly non-deterministically), emacs will index all folders in a project; making projectile-find-file, and other ivy operations slow. To fix this add a .ignore
file to your project root, and add the problematic directories to this affect:
deps/ assets/node_modules/ _build/
Renaming files with dired
In Doom, open a dired dir and enter
C-c C-e
(or(wdired-change-to-wdired-mode)
)Make changes and apply them with
C-c
Get path binaries working in emacs
Doom Emacs Quicknotes
ripgrep not working in GUI emacs? Run
~/.emacs.d/bin/doom env
Snippets
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