What are your requirements for "something modern", compared to the out-of-the-box experience? My own .emacs is the result of nearly 10 years of tinkering, whic

What are your requirements for "something modern", compared to the out-of-the-box experience? My own .emacs is the result of nearly 10 years of tinkering, which I (like subsection1h) enjoy. Actually, I probably enjoy it too much, I've spent quite a lot of time procrastinating by tinkering with emacs … and this is why something like Prelude doesn't make sense to me, why would I let someone else do all the tinkering for me? =P By the way, in my experience most packages tend to stay out of the way of others (e.g. turning on ido everywhere doesn't stop you from using jedi/midnight/sauron/org/magit/etc.), unless they are specific to a certain mode (jedi and ropemacs and traad all try to solve more or less the same problem, ie. python code assistance, so don't run them at the same time).