Emacs users out there?

Thanks for the first link! Already had DT like most of his videos too

This is good to know. I tried Spacemacs, but wasn’t thrilled. Doom looks/seems like a better choice. And DT has good videos on it.

Lately I’ve been seriously contemplating Doom Emacs exactly for the reasons you’ve mentioned. Any recommendations on how to start, or should I just dive in (YOLO)?

There’s nothing better than ā€œdiving inā€ when you want to try something different. For one thing, different people have different preferences on what they prefer. As for me, I’ve tried both SpaceEmacs and DoomEmacs; being a long time classic user of both Emacs and XEmacs, both before and after a more complete graphical environment was provided, so I’m used to writing my own Emacs Lisp configurations for the things I’m interested in, and therefore I wasn’t looking for these additions. I’m not, by any means discouraging anyone; in fact I suggest trying multiple alternatives and each of us to decide which of them to use, or if Emacs is the tool we prefer to use or not. I used to use it a great deal; now, it’s more of a ā€œthing to rememberā€ for me as opposed to a tool I absolutely have to have, since I’m now retired; these days, browsers and simple editors or notepads are sufficient for 80-90% of my daily needs, perhaps a higher percentage than that.