> When should you stop doing things manually and automate them instead? When your best estimate is that spending the time to automate it will be a net benefit

> When should you stop doing things manually and automate them instead? When your best estimate is that spending the time to automate it will be a net benefit in the long run. (https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/) This is hardly unique to configuring an editor or IDE though. If someone is repeatedly and consistently spending "half their day" configuring their editor then either they don't really know how to use it, or they're slacking off, or they consistently make bad time estimates (https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/), or you don't actually understand what it is they're doing and why.