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As a vscode user considering the move, how difficult would it be to get to the point of making emacs a daily driver?

Can it be a pick it up as you go thing? Or would I have to spend a few evenings figuring out the basics and configuration? Is lisp knowledge required?

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Depends on what you're gonna be doing with it. If you're mainly working with HTML, CSS, maybe some Bash scripts, you can just open it up, work your way through the (IMO excellent) tutorial and you're off to the races.

That said, if Emacs gets its claws in you you may, like me, lose a fair few evenings and weekends just playing around with various packages and customization options because it's just so fun to tweak.

If you install Doom Emacs [1] after installing Emacs itself, I think it would be a couple of days. At least if you can live with the things Doom comes with. It's just a matter of following the instructions, uncommenting the relevant modules in .doom.d/init.el, syncing the changes and off you go.

[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs#install

>>As a vscode user considering the move, how difficult would it be to get to the point of making emacs a daily driver?

Among the big list of features missing in Emacs as of now is remote development that way its done is vscode.

I'd say give using it for weekend projects or a day or 1/2 day a week at work a try.

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