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by _huayra_ 2025 days ago
I can't reply to your deepest comment in this thread, but I'm following up on that:

* Try spacemacs. Though I'm a Doom user, spacemacs is much more approachable out of the box. You can just uncomment things and have it work well. * Use Emacs 27.1 or later because it has faster JSON parsing -> crucial for good LSP performance

A few ways to get started are learning how to search for things within Emacs:

* C-h f: find documentation for any function by name * C-k k: find the documentation for any keystroke function * If you want to see what commands are going on: install command-log-mode. it will give you a buffer to see what commands you run with every keystroke * I don't remember if spacemacs has it or not, but the following two packages are crucial when you want to learn more: which-key (to show the keys available when you press something like C-x) and helpful mode [0]. I'm pretty sure spacemacs has these by default, but if not they're golden!