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I'm a vim user but I would really love to take a peek into the emacs realm (also interested in Rust development). Is this a good project to start with? Also, I use vim-plug to manage my plugins, is there an equivalent in the emacs world?

Any tips or recommendations are welcome :)

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> Is this a good project to start with?

Probably not. You'd be better off looking at an Emacs distribution to see what's available.

Sacha Chua's Visual Guide to Emacs is excellent. http://sachachua.com/blog/series/a-visual-guide-to-emacs/

There's also an awesome list for it. https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

I'd suggest looking at Magit or Org-Mode. These are often cited as "killer features"/"gateway drugs" for Emacs.

> ... what's the equivalent of vim-plug ...

I liked the discussion on straight.el's readme: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/blob/develop/README....

Thanks for the recommendations :)

There is also Doom Emacs [1] which provides Vim experience out-of-the-box. It also comes with a fantastic theme.

I've been using Vi/Vim for more than two decades now. Doom made me feel at home. I used to envy Emacs all these nice features such as Org Mode, Magit and even the ability to use Lisp to configure your environment. Now it's the best of both worlds.

I just wish Emacs' onboarding process / cohesiveness was as good as in VS Code. It would be a dream come true. ;)

PS. I've recorded a short Doom screencast for newcomers [2]

[1]: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCMh7srOqvw

This looks really interesting. How does it compare to something like spacemacs? I'm confused by all the different "flavors" of emacs. I think I would prefer something like doom to spacemacs since, from the looks of it, you stay inside the terminal. If I want a gui, I'll just use VS Code.

Thank you for the recommendations!

http://spacemacs.org/

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