> if you're doing real work, you'll end up having to use hosts that don't have all of your wonderful enhancements installed. It's good to know vanilla emacs. I

> if you're doing real work, you'll end up having to use hosts that don't have all of your wonderful enhancements installed. It's good to know vanilla emacs. If you're talking about production hosts, they shouldn't really have vanilla emacs installed either. Not having your creature comforts present on production machines is a feature, like the red shell prompt / terminal background some people use, a reminder to get you to think twice and try to not do things directly in production. If you really must, just use TRAMP, it's amazing. If, on the other hand, you're talking about using somebody else's laptop to do anything, that doesn't make sense to optimize for, at least in my experience. I prefer not to even touch other peoples' laptops/keyboards.