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by shadowgovt 1056 days ago
> You are excited that it's dated to 'now'.

Yes, I am. That's very convenient for me.

> Were you around when Microsoft decided to drop the UX they'd been using for a few decades and change to "The Ribbon" ?

I was, and you're right. Microsoft functionally owns the chrome for vscode and it isn't as configurable as far as I can tell as emacs at that layer. There's certainly a possibility they will make a decision later to mess everything up.

But for now, my previous observation stands. I have to do less configuration out of the box to get vscode into a daily use work configuration than a naked emacs install.

I highlight this because it's not an unsolvable problem for emacs. It requires making a recommended default configuration that will be more correct for the 95% use case and advocating that configuration on the install channels for the tool.

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> I highlight this because it's not an unsolvable problem for emacs. It requires making a recommended default configuration that will be more correct for the 95% use case and advocating that configuration on the install channels for the tool.

For people interested in this, I know about Doom Emacs [1] and Spacemacs [2].

[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs [2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs