[gollum999]

I know a couple people who subscribe to this philosophy. I think that, like customizing Emacs itself, the decision of how much to customize is an important consideration when optimizing your workflow.

Personally, I do 99.9% of development on one machine. If I need to edit a file while ssh-ing, I use vim. I put my .emacs.d in a private repo so setting up a new machine is done with `git clone`. Upgrading emacs does sometimes break things (which can be quite frustrating), but that also is rare enough that I wouldn't want to let that constrain my daily workflow. So since all of those things fall in the 0.1% for me, I have no problem tweaking things to my liking.

[philsnow]

> Personally, I do 99.9% of development on one machine. If I need to edit a file while ssh-ing, I use vim.

You don't find tramp-mode sufficient for remote editing?