[susam]

Thank you for sharing your feedback. Understanding every line of .emacs was indeed the intention behind the line-by-line explanation.

If one does not wish to understand the customizations completely, then Portacle is a great starting point. However, my intention here was to promote a DIY approach to customizing Emacs into a CL dev environment.

I believe that with something like Emacs which is so extensible, it is good to promote customizing it to one's own taste and preferences instead of installing a readymade customized distribution of it. This project is meant to be a quick starter kit to quickly do these customizations without having to spend too much time on it.