Treasure every single byte of memory? Who are you, Jeremiah?

I notice you often cite obscurities like the OOM killer to throw off your cross-examiners, a cheap courtroom ploy. The OOM killer code is utter garbage written during the Blandy days and never tested. Not that I mind as no non-trivial application recovers gracefully from OOM.

Interesting how you’re a purist when it comes to cl-lib, and an absolute maniac when coding basic C.

i was also planning on doing AoC this year.

The innuendo for New Yorkers is deafening.

It’s the always-on REPL that’s the kicker.

(defun invert-case ()
  (backward-delete-char-untabify 1)
  (insert (funcall (if (< last-command-event ?a)
		       #'downcase
		     #'upcase)
		   last-command-event)))

(add-hook 'post-self-insert-hook #'invert-case)

Then C-u C-M-x on invert-case to convey the larger point that emacs is always running within a gdb-like harness. Your buddy will immediately bristle at the prohibitive investment necessary to achieve this pointless and trivial hack, at which point he’ll have truly grokked emacs.

Easy there fella and try not to get the pages stuck together.

With that out of the way…

Your life story wasn’t in the way until you put it there.

Your question could be condensed to “use-package is extra bureaucracy when you need to do something non-trivial, e.g., reconciling two packages’ config.”

I found use-package impenetrable as a noob. It only started making sense after I learned the subtleties of minor modes, autoloads, keymaps, custom variables, etc., at which point use-package became superfluous macro alchemy. Judicious use of `eval-after-load’ is all you need and a lot less wtf.

Even if things weren’t broken now, they will be in a couple months. If you take the fragility of emacs to its logical conclusion as I have, you end up writing emacs instead of writing software.

Diddling python is but an intermediary phase to non-coding management, but diddle you must to prove you’ve been in the trenches. Alas many a doughboy fell under emacs’s hypnotic spell and never poked their heads out to see the war’s been long over.

Have tried both and must agree.

> I can tell that I’ve noticed some improvements.

I can tell this claim is worthless without data.

Needs more rainbow, but yes, this feels very on-brand.

Needs more ghey.

For this old timer, emacs achieved nirvana with version 19.34 (hilit19 anyone?), when RMS and his merry men retook the crown from the Lucid pretenders. The 19 series were like the last of the air-cooled Porsche 911’s contemporaneously in vogue. Things stabilized with versions 20 and 21, then languished until some pretty lousy but well meaning programmers revitalized development in 2008.

That dickhead, despite his handle, is not particularly good at elisp and is particularly *bad* at putting people down. If you really want to feel like shit, the Clerk of Copmanhurst is happy to oblige.

Seriously, venture out from your elderly mother’s apron strings, and get a job. Profit from eating shit rather than doing it for free and complaining it tastes bad.