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I wish I could do the same thing. I am really happiest using Emacs for Common Lisp, markdown, Scheme, and Haskell; and I am a fan of the very old Emacs Python s

I wish I could do the same thing. I am really happiest using Emacs for Common Lisp, markdown, Scheme, and Haskell; and I am a fan of the very old Emacs Python support. My problem is that I am a little obsessive about keeping all my JetBrain IDEs, LispWorks, and VSCode all set up with useful plugins. As you might imagine, I also use them. However, I think my work flow would be better just using one tool. I like to play around with dev tools and configurations too much. I am 71 years old, I should know better :-)

Y_Y 4y ago
I might be less than half that age, but I've given up on listening to complaints about spending time making the editor nice. I don't have any super-big configs but what I do have is careful and precise and ass a result Emacs (spacemacs) feels as much at home to me as sitting on my couch. Furthermore I enjoy tweaking my workspace. If you spend all day at it you'll never get any work done, but if you don't spend any time at it you'll miss the active enjoyment of tweaking and the passive enjoyment of having a nicer workspace. I'll not mention all the time people gripe at me about how hard it is to learn vim commands while I save so much time on large repetitive edits that I've made back my (enjoyable) investment years ago.