I love my (sort of) home grown Emacs config, but maintaining it can be exhausting.
Yesterday, I complained about it a little in A blog post written with NeoVim. There’s so much going on. I’ve spent years making tweaks both small and large. This should be a good thing, but I’m not feeling great about it. It feels fragile. It is fragile.
So, what to do about it? Anything? One option might be to switch back to something like Doom Emacs. Doom is great, but I always end up spending nearly as much time tweaking packages as I do on my own config.
Another option would be to migrate away from using Emacs for everything.
::gasp!::
I’ve threatened to leave Emacs before. Many times. I’ve even followed through once or twice. The problem is that inertia (or is it momentum?) takes over. I have a decade of notes and workflows built on and around Org mode, all via Emacs. What happens to all that? Do I really want to replace all those parts with new ones? If I’m going to commit to switching to Linux (still not a certainty), the replacements are all different.
You can tell I’m in a mood because I’m posting this with WordPress. That’s never a good sign.
Anyway, I’m still noodling on all of it. Thanks for listening.
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