[mark_l_watson]

Thanks, nice comments. I have used Emacs since the late 1980s, but I also "live" in IDEs like IntelliJ and RubyMine.

Over the last year I have been spending more time (again) in Emacs to the point where I am not even renewing my JetBrains yearly licenses.

Sorry if this is too off topic, but I have been reading computer scientist Cal NewPort's books (Deep Work, and Be So Good They Can't Ignore You) and he talks a lot about craftsmanship. Automating our workflows seems pretty much core to craftsmanship and it is probably easier to do this in Emacs than writing IDE plugins.