> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM > From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Rudolf Adamkovič" <[email protected]>, > "Khalid Rafi" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: Overcoming Emacs addiction with Emacs (Org mode) > > Christopher Dimech <[email protected]> writes: > > >> > I often find myself tweaking my init file, instead of working. > > > > Emacs lacks built-in tools for easy customization, forcing much time on the > > user > > to come up with extensive Elisp code and experience for basic tweaks. > > I nowadays use M-x customize-variable much more than years earlier. > > And my Emacs config is much closer to pristine now, even though I use > EXWM. > > Part of this was accepting that the defaults aren’t that bad. And only > using what proved to work well.
Although defaults are not bad, some added functionality to easily make changes using decreased amount of elisp code by the user would help. > Best wishes, > Arne > -- > Unpolitisch sein > heißt politisch sein, > ohne es zu merken. > https://www.draketo.de >
