[kazinator]

How is that not a fork? You have to maintain your function. Upstream can change in ways that your monkey patched function won't work; you have to maintain that going forward.

If you want to share your change with others, you have to ask them: which version of VSCode are you on, and give them the correct monkey patch which worked with that version.

You're doing everything fork-like except calling it a fork.

[gnulinux]

It doesn't need to be a fork, you can have your own emacs config, everybody does. Are you familiar with emacs internals?

[kazinator]

What morelisp said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592976