In any buffer C-z (control + Z) temporarily disables evil-mode in that buffer. C-z again brings it back.

For a more permanent solution: go to $DOOMDIR/init.el, find the line that says (evil +everywhere), comment it out (add a semicolon in front). Then doom sync

Emacs has a built in tutorials to help with basic movement/editing, and C-h k (that’s control + H then K) tells you what any key does.

I had the package yascroll active, and it was fine on most files but org-mode was quite slow. I disabled that as well as svg-tag-mode etc

I think it’d be really cool to implement a swipe-based touch interface onto Emacs. The recent Android port has potential as they’re fixing up touchscreen support. The real question is, how do you make such a thing intuitive and ergonomic?

Seems to be an attempt at an unofficial mascot…

Some people wear glasses but most do not.

Interesting - at least 90% of people I’ve ever known in real life wear glasses. In fact at the moment I’m the only one who doesn’t and I should probably get some eventually.

Maybe the human race is just getting worse at seeing and we’re coping by trying to make the workaround seem cool and attractive.

Not sure if Bryan Lunduke’s old videos are still up on YouTube or if he pay walled them, but he used to talk about these things a lot. Small Linux handhelds with physical keyboard.

Of course, “comfortably” is another matter…

I scrolled a little bit but just assumed they were a well-meaning human obsessed with email marketing or whatever. How did you determine it’s a bot?

i can’t help you with info manuals for Emacs

Then why did you respond?

Thanks for the tip! Going to come back to this next week when I get the chance to try exwm again…

Do you have Evil or god-mode or meow or anything remotely similar?

Can confirm. Great resource. I’ve never asked about what to install since!

This exactly. For me it’s neofetch

Eat-eshell-mode turns the eshell buffer itself into an eat terminal. Since top is in eshell-visual-commands list, it gets run in a separate term mode buffer. To switch this out for an eat buffer, use eat-eshell-visual-command-mode.

MacOS is pretty good, it’s a proper Unix system. Emacs works well, tho there are some eccentricities. Font size for example works very differently on Mac displays because there’s a lot more pixels.

Open .config/emacs/init.el and get cracking. To get familiar with bindings and stuff, C-h t. The built-in elisp manual is also pretty good

I’m not suggesting the posframe solutions others have suggested also suffer from this behaviour.

Then what was the point of the rest of the comment?

Posframes (child frames) always display on top of the root Emacs frame. Modal dialogs like menu-set-font are OS windows which do suffer from the problem you mentioned… except for the vast majority of systems where they just display on the right workspace by default.

When I wrote hypop, I specifically make it find the workspace Emacs is on to summon the minibuffer window to. It’s really not that hard at a small scale.

vertico-posframe makes a pop-up in the middle of the screen for completion specifically. This is probably what you want.

There’s also my package [hypop](https://github.com/mitchmarq42/hypop.el) which separates out the whole minibuffer and hides it when not in use. It has a few major drawbacks and only works on the hyprland desktop right now so probably don’t use it.