Doom is amazing. I have tried a number of emacs distributions and doom is the only one that stuck.

Reading the readme I don't quite get it - in a nutshell, what is it?

Is it a configuration system (a lisp library/convention on how to configure packages), emacs with curated packages, or what? They also talk about modifying packages, which even if maybe good, isn't this a lot of work? But if so, why don't they just pull-request these back to the original packages?

It's basically a repo containing ~/.emacs.d.

It provides a lot of sensible defaults for different Emacs packages, these are organized into "modules" which are just sub-folders that can be enabled or disabled via the central config files in ~/.doom.d (this is a custom Doom thing, it just loads a few files in ~/.doom.d at startup to make it easy to config everything in one place).

Basically it provides you a nice starting point to using Emacs, with things just working out of the box.

Ah, thank you (and the sibling) for a concise explanation!

used it for awhile when trying to grok emacs/vim, but went back to sublime (now vscode). However, it's similar to spacemacs.

It's basically skins/default configs and what not, it's a bit less structured/opinionated so you can customize it more/easier than spacemacs.

Such a cool idea!

Thanks. It's been pretty useful for us and let us keep some type of normalcy during these strange times.

Not nano meter :)

I am curious about this change in the changelog. "Password manager now supports script-generated password fields" I couldn't easily find any details about. Would someone be kind enough to elaborate on what it does and where it is useful?

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355063

Wow, that bug is over seven years old!

It's oddly gratifying to see bugs that old getting fixed...

Thanks

I did a bit of Excel programming in Python; a tool to extract, and sanity check, data from a spreadsheet, send it to a server and populate results back in the spreadsheet. The "Python Programming On Win32" book by Mark Hammond was a great resource http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565926219.do

Or the pythonic replacement grin: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/grin

My galaxy nexus seems to work a lot better after applying the workaround mentioned in that bug report. Thanks.

Your book seems very interesting. I await the other chapters eagerly