Yep, people tend to ignore the time spent mucking about with GUI based configurations even though it often adds up to enormous amounts of time. The big differen

Yep, people tend to ignore the time spent mucking about with GUI based configurations even though it often adds up to enormous amounts of time. The big difference between the two approaches is that the effort I've spent customizing Emacs has continued to pay dividends over the past 20 years. And I only had to make each change once instead of every time I move to a new computer.