Install Doom Emacs

Head over to this repository and execute the scripts.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ~/.config/emacs
~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install

doom command not recognized

Whenever I install doom emacs, I always face this problem and now we’re going to put an end to this error.(!panic)

The error would look something like mentioned below:

Error: file-missing ("Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "/usr/early-init.el")
  mapbacktrace(#f(compiled-function (evald func args flags) #<bytecode -0x1a9589d6c510f34>))
  debug-early-backtrace()
  debug-early(error (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "/usr/early-init.el"))
  load("/usr/early-init.el" nil nomessage nosuffix)
  (and (load init-file nil 'nomessage 'nosuffix) (featurep 'doom))
  (or (and (load init-file nil 'nomessage 'nosuffix) (featurep 'doom)) (user-error "Failed to load Doom from %s" init-file))
  (let* ((bin-dir (file-name-directory (file-truename load-file-name))) (init-file (expand-file-name "../early-init.el" bin-dir))) (or (and (load init-file nil 'nomessage 'nosuffix) (featurep 'doom)) (user-error "Failed to load Doom from %s" init-file)))
  (condition-case e (let* ((bin-dir (file-name-directory (file-truename load-file-name))) (init-file (expand-file-name "../early-init.el" bin-dir))) (or (and (load init-file nil 'nomessage 'nosuffix) (featurep 'doom)) (user-error "Failed to load Doom from %s" init-file))) (user-error (message "Error: %s" (car (cdr e))) (kill-emacs 2)))
  load-with-code-conversion("/usr/bin/doom" "/usr/bin/doom" nil t)
  command-line-1(("--load" "/usr/bin/doom" "--"))
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()
Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, /usr/early-init.el

Let’s fix it:

  1. First, we have verify that we have the required directory present in the respective location.
  • ~/.config/emacs
  • ~/.config/doom
  • Basically, these directories are enough to get started!
  1. However, make sure there’s no directory named emacs.d in home directory of the user (~/.emacs.d).
  • If there’s a directory present in this location(~/.emacs.d), then it will become error.

Make sure to verify 1 & 2 .

The error mainly is caused because of the 2, so make sure that directory is not present.

Alternative: If that directory is needed, then we can directly point doom there instead of ~/.config/doom

Let’s get fix it simple command!:

  1. Open ~/.bashrc
nano ~/.bashrc
  1. Add this line at the bottom:
export PATH="$HOME/.config/emacs/bin:$PATH"
  1. Update the changes:
source ~/.bashrc