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I am not here to shit on Emacs -- I recognize that I am not its audience. Took me a long time because I was in denial but eventually I figured it out. But I ge

I am not here to shit on Emacs -- I recognize that I am not its audience. Took me a long time because I was in denial but eventually I figured it out. But I get Elisp warnings and errors every day. And mind you, I did abandon my monstrous init file a year ago and just yielded to Spacemacs with very minimal changes like font, cursor customization et. al. -- basically just 7-8 of these. It has a ton of stuff in it though. Spacemacs isn't a lightweight Emacs. Being on macOS might be another thing, too, I don't know. Even with that, there is trouble on a regular basis. I would think an all-in-one package deal would have better debugging and proper care but oh well. :( Again, not here to degrade Emacs itself, I am only here to share that the amount of effort I am willing to invest to maintain my local installation is apparently not enough to have a well-running editor, and that I will be giving up on it because of that.

iLemming 5y ago
> Spacemacs isn't a lightweight Emacs No, it's not. Many people make a mistake, thinking that Doom, Prelude, or Spacemacs are ready-to-use, out-of-the-box solutions. They are more like collections of recipes. You have to judiciously remove things. You need to know how to use the built-in profiler. > and that I will be giving up on it because of that And that's okay. I myself abandoned Emacs and moved back to other things several times, until I finally learned how to make it work for me.