Briefly considered going from Doom Emacs back to a home-rolled vanilla config but realized I’d just spend the next two years basically rebuilding Doom from scratch so never mind.

@pimoore Yeah, it can be almost too opinionated, but there are just so many fine-tuned tweaks and improved behaviors that it would take forever to get anywhere close. I love the idea of my own config, but always bail after a few frustrating days.

@jack @pimoore The thing about having your own config is that you always end up with less stuff in the long run compared to Doom, Spacemacs etc. And if you stick with it for a few months I at least ended up in a place where how my shit is set up is so far from what you can configure the starter packs to do that you can't go back

@hjertnes True, but it's been my experience that less "stuff" also means less "nice". Every time I work on my own config, it feels great for a week or two but I still suffer from a thousand little annoyances and I miss all the helpful tweaks from Doom and really don't want to spend the time trying to recreate most of them. Maybe one day I'll try again.

@jack @hjertnes Agreed. Doom may have a lot of “stuff” but it all works seamlessly, and if you don’t use a feature you wouldn’t even know it’s there.

@jack I don't consider them nice. I just look at them as complications that make it harder to use it outside what the doom guy imagined

@hjertnes I'm with @jack and @pimoore here. But the only real question is elisp or literate config. 😀

@pimoore It only works seamless if you keep to doing a Doom config. But the moment you want to do more complex emacs stuff shit gets weird and difficult

@hjertnes Yes that's the trick. It's a bit opinionated and if you at least mostly agree with him, then it's great. Otherwise I can see if feeling like you're fighting against it too often. I suppose that means I mostly agree.

@patbak @hjertnes I did the literate thing for a while but that felt almost like adding a project on top of a project so I bailed.

@hjertnes I definitely agree with that, fortunately I never had to deviate from Doom. If that wasn’t the case I’d likely feel much differently as well.

@jack @hjertnes @pimoore As you are on it already… Does any of you know how to post to M.B. via Emacs? Any hints appreciated.

@patbak @hjertnes @Jack If I had done my own it would’ve been literate all the way. I used a literate config for a work script I built so at least I got to experience the power that way. 😆

@svenseebeck I had a method for it once, maybe @jack still has it around. I don't use emacs or micro.blog hosting these days

@hjertnes Ahh cool. Thanks a lot.