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+title: "I Switched to (Doom) Emacs"
+date: 2022-11-26T15:15:14+05:30
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+After [failing to set up gentoo](/blog/2022/my-failed-attempt-at-installing-gentoo/) I've decided
+to stop using linux. After thinking about it for some time I finally installed emacs. Now instead of
+Arch Linux, I have an entry for emacs in my GRUB config.
+
+Jokes aside, emacs is actually an awesome text editor! Though I think `C-x C-f` is bullshit. Evil mode
+is the greatest emacs extention! I've been using [Doom Emacs](https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs) which is an emacs "configuration framework" which comes
+with Evil mode turned on by default. Idk if it counts as cheating but I don't really care.
+
+Honestly, getting used to emacs was not hard but not easy either. It was somewhere in the middle.
+It wasn't too hard probably because I had experience with vim. But apart from having similar keybindings with Evil mode,
+and having kind of the same philosophy of never leaving your keyboard, emacs is much different. 
+
+## It's one of the most polished IDE I've used
+
+Okay, the only other IDE I've used is IntelliJ Idea, so I don't think I have too much experience, but Doom Emacs is really the most fun
+text editor/IDE to code in. It has support for multiple programming languages, which is the most important for me, but it also has
+a great way of navigating around the projects and also has git integration that I really haven't used much.
+
+Unlike vim, it *does* have long startup times but apart from that, it's pretty fast and has LSP support 
+(especially Doom Emacs which has some bundled packages for lots of languages), and it just feels much more polished
+as compared to something like CoC.
+
+## Emacs can literally do anything
+
+The only thing keeping me from directly booting into emacs is my XMonad config which is I'm way too comfortable with.
+I mean, Emacs can act as a text editor/IDE, an image viewer, PDF viewer, web browser, music player, email client, RSS reader, and A WINDOW MANAGER
+
+That's pretty cool! I might try exwm (I think that's what it's called) when I get more comfortable with emacs..
+
+## Try out Emacs NOW!
+
+Emacs is really innovative, it feels like home because of the vim emulation but with a plethora of extra features.
+Since emacs manages its own internal buffers, as a tiling window manager user I found it kinda hard to get used to,
+but in the end I feel much more productive. I haven't even tried out most of the features I know about, like I have changed like 5 lines
+in the config file so there is still a lot for me to learn, but it's very fun!
+
+Even if you don't have much experience with vim, I recommend trying out emacs. I think apart from the weird buffer/window thing and 
+the keyboard-driven interface, it still feels much closer to things like VSCode, not vim.