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Yeah, with more experience I have realized that most customization is not better

A certain level yes, but doesn't need to be all, end all

VSCode solves most of my issues.

"oh but in Emacs you can do..." a thing that I either don't need, or I don't care about or I can do using a web service or some other offline program or maybe even a VSCode plugin or a short vim script.




> "oh but in Emacs you can do..." a thing that I either don't need, or I don't care about or

or it's already available in pretty much any IDE out of the box. Most people advocating for emacs or vim usually have no idea what a modern IDE is, and pretend modern IDEs have not surpassed win3.1 notepad in terms of functionality.


Yes, that's a good reminder.

And I agree, a lot of those heavy advocates live in a bubble




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