Oops, I really did project hard, didn't I? :D Sorry! > To the point that they aren't USING the tools they are learning, just learning how to use it in such de

Oops, I really did project hard, didn't I? :D Sorry! > To the point that they aren't USING the tools they are learning, just learning how to use it in such depth that they paralyze themselves. Yeah, I've met those. And I completely agree that what they do is unprofessional. At one point you should just sit on your arse and do what you are paid for! > I don't know why you took this personally... Same reason why many others do -- I projected. :) Apologies. > Emacs has a web browser in Lisp, why? I am sure many would chime in to say how they love never leaving Emacs or how back then good email clients and web browsers weren't a thing -- but I am with you here, I think the effort and tool duplication must absolutely stop already. There aren't very many of us the programmers in the world (I mean those who get sh1t done) and we shouldn't spread our efforts in meaningless individualism. > All I'm saying is use the tools. Customize it as needed, but don't become addicted to customization for customization's sake. Yep, 100% this. I actually do my very best to customize very little. I spend a great amount of effort [every now and then] to find the canonical way a tool [is expected to] work/works and just do a very thin layer of customization on top of that, versioning it with GIT and overall making sure I can nuke my $HOME from orbit, clone a few repos on a new machine, issue a few installation commands and be on my merry way.