I use the rainbow-delimiters package, which gives you up to 9 faces to set parentheses

Yes? It's a shell

Yes. It's worth it.

If you've ever tweaked your Doom config, you're already writing elisp. Going from setting options to writing new modes will certainly take time, but lisp is a language that builds on itself.

In fact, Emacs+elisp is one of the best systems for learning by doing. C-h f, C-h v, C-x C-e, etc will get you far. The built in tutorial is absolutely worth going thru, and understanding lisp will improve your understanding of other languages as well.

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.

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.