Looking back, the main value of super-customized Emacs distros (really) was to show me what's possible. Spacemacs blew me away, yet overwhelmed me when I tried

Looking back, the main value of super-customized Emacs distros (really) was to show me what's possible. Spacemacs blew me away, yet overwhelmed me when I tried to customize it; so I started with vanilla Emacs and then added things, package by package; magit is every bit as good as I'd heard, and Treemacs makes exploring a big source tree pleasant. More recently I've been reading the Org manual (1), which like Spacemacs opened my eyes to Org mode's capabilities: literate programming and code blocks that modify the source document captured my interest, along with table and spreadsheet capabilities. I still use nvim all the time in the terminal; vi knowledge is essential, as it's the best editor you can be sure to have on a UNIX-like system. Case in point: Today I used vi in kterm on my jailbroken Kindle Touch to edit usbnet's SSHD config (2) and I can't imagine a more efficient editor (3) for an eInk device. P.S. My favorite thing about Emacs is the help system. Being able to look up a function or what a key does with a few keypresses is fantastic! 1: https://orgmode.org/org.pdf https://orgmode.org/org.pdf 2: Now I can use `scp` or SFTP from my laptop and or iPhone to add books to my Kindle while it's connected to my iPhone hotspot 3: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/k5-kterm-and-vi.jpeg https://nexus.armylane.com/files/k5-kterm-and-vi.jpeg