My Zero To IDE Emacs Journey

These posts are meant to document my attempts to setup Emacs as a daily driver and fully customizable IDE from vanilla emacs. The hope is to get to the point where I can comfortably replace my use of JetBrains IDEs with Emacs, and importantly understand how I can extend it to go even further.

Each post is intended to explore different concepts to actually understand what extensions/workflows work well and why they work (or not) for me. Most of the posts will not be quick tips and instead will be an in depth look at specific areas.

The posts are also ordered in general sequence that I discovered the functionality at, and may not necessarily be the most logical ordering from a newbie perspective.

I am not an Emacs expert, in fact I am brand new to the ecosystem. I will probably get things wrong.

Note: All of the text was written by me, by hand, without LLM assistance. Some of the code snippets have been generated by LLMs as I am new to elisp (and lisps in general), but all have been tested and verified.

1. Installation
2. Initial Config
3. Emacs Variables
4. Packages
5. Themes
6. Minibuffer
7. Code Completion
8. Basic File Management
9. Which Key
10. Markdown Support
11. Keybinds, Chords, and Modality
12. Project Management
13. Syntax Highlighting
14. LSP Via Eglot
15. LSP Via LSP-Mode
16. Git
17. Window Management
18. Shells
19. Task Execution
20. Live Previews
21. Undo/Redo
22. Debugging