Here are a couple of quickies. Neither one requires much exposition on my part but they are both interesting. In the first, Prot shares what he considers decent default settings for Emacs. Naturally, I don’t agree with all of them but they’re an excellent start for your init.el. For example, I’d be more likely to prefer Melpa over Gnu Elpa, and I prefer Swiper to Consult but that may be simply because I’m used to Swiper and it works well for me.
Most of the rest of his choices I agree with or at least am agnostic about. That’s the thing about Emacs, you get to choose what works best for you.
The second quickie is a post from Charles Choi that discusses bulk search and replace commands in Emacs. Choi begins with reviewing regular expression syntax. That’s important because some Emacs command use the builtin regexp syntax and others call various versions of grep, which, of course, have their own regexp syntax.
As usual with Choi’s posts there’s a lot there and it requires careful reading but it’s worthwhile. As Choi says, the Emacs bulk search and replace commands make possible workflows that would be harrowing in other editors but they’re also difficult to discover. His post is intended to remedy that.