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by nine_k 308 days ago
Modern Emacs has pretty good defaults. Still, to get a much better quality of life, one usually has to manually install magit, treemacs, yasnippet, company-mode, ace-window, vertico + orderless (or similar), relevant programming language modes, and language servers for them.
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noosphr 308 days ago
What you actually mean:

>I have a set of packages I find useful. You may not. Install them anyway and waste 6 months trying to understand how to use things that you don't yet need.

I have a whole set packages and DE improvements I've install/written for literate programming. I don't suggest everyone install noweb and friends for better productivity despite how useful they are.

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nine_k 308 days ago
Literate programming is niche, even more than using Emacs. Using git is mainstream, and magit is considered one of the best git clients ever; some people even install and use Emacs exclusively for running it, not for text editing.
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