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!

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

Source

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/

• 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

• ripgrep not working in GUI emacs? Run ~/.emacs.d/bin/doom env

Sometimes external keyboards aren't happy with how mac keybinds work. Get left option key working as meta: (this disables unique glyph entry via the right option key.)

(setq mac-command-modifier      'super
      ns-command-modifier       'super
      mac-option-modifier       'meta
      ns-option-modifier        'meta
      mac-right-option-modifier 'meta
      ns-right-option-modifier  'meta)

• change tab size: (setq-default tab-width 10)