I have been using plain out-of-the-box emacs for literally 40+ years. (I wrote the initial version of one of the commands that’s now built-in.) I do probably

I have been using plain out-of-the-box emacs for literally 40+ years. (I wrote the initial version of one of the commands that’s now built-in.) I do probably a third of my data cleaning work in keyboard macros. I am so used to and efficient with plain emacs that most customization just seems like unnecessary decoration — with the exception of major language modes, because language specific fwd/bkwd (s)expr is so useful.