Ah, excellent, just wanted to make sure there wasn't some magical insight i was missing out on by not being familiar with emacs. re: clicking/squinting/draggin

Ah, excellent, just wanted to make sure there wasn't some magical insight i was missing out on by not being familiar with emacs. re: clicking/squinting/dragging/animations those i would usually handle by things like keyboard shortcuts, configuring your global search to list tabs first, configuring animation. I think what is more interesting is the idea to use the same buffers/windows for non-text-files. So, the first half is the idea of having all your tooling be text-based. There's some slider along, text driven by keyboard => gui driven by keyboard => gui driven by mouse. And then the second half of the idea seems to be how you separate text-editing/config/applications. So maybe along that slider, emacs mixes all sources / IDE groups sources within an application / separate applications for each source. Maybe pushing everything to one edge of the slider is able to put one in a zen-like state. I guess for now I just try to find a sweet spot with my tools, where stuff i want to do fast i can do fast, and everything else is ok as is.