Welcome to Emacs!
- I write about Emacs things fairly frequently: https://xenodium.com
- I started making Emacs videos recently: https://www.youtube.com/xenodium
- For aggregated Emacs blogs, check out https://planet.emacslife.com
- For aggregated Emacs videos, https://emacs.tv
- The Emacs subreddit can be handy too https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs
- If on the fediverse, follow the #emacs hashtag
- Sacha Chua's Emacs News are great https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news
With respect to "modern", maybe these two posts could be of interest:
- Visual tweaks: https://xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-candy
- macOS tricks: https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos
Enjoy the ride!
As a Mac vim and Obsidian user, I've normally explored Doom when I've dipped my toe in the Emacs waters. Would you recommend starting from a less customised install and build up from there?
Sort of side question, but why do you set the command key to be Emacs' meta key? I've sort of waffled on that myself -- the plus to doing it is that it matches Windows (which I am in too much of the time) and Linux, but the minus is that it not only breaks 20+ years of muscle memory I have with MacOS, it collides with a few other global hotkeys. (Recent collisions I've noticed are Alfred's clipboard manager, which defaults to Shift-Command-\ (M-|, shell-command-on-region), and the system-level screenshot hotkey on Shift-Command-5 (M-%, query-replace).
For the keys you don’t need to type quickly, M-x can also be typed as ESC x. For any character x.
So it works well with M-|, but not so well with M-f, for example.
Ah yes. I find the ⌘ key placement a little more ergonomic/convenient, but at the end of the day, pick whatever works for ya.
Thinking back, I prolly didn't use those two commands often enough to internalize M-| or M-% bindings, so the system-level handling didn't bother me. While I do replace things all the time, I typically use multiple cursors (I do use bindings for that). If I need querying, I just type `M-x que RET` which gets picked up by a completion frameworks (in my case ivy).
Relatedly, I also use Hammerspoon on macOS and set some global key bindings using the ⌥ key.