[theshrike79]

This is why I tend to gravitate towards either fully bespoke tools (made by me, for me, nobody else) or tools with sane defaults.

Emacs -> (n)vim -> hx for CLI editor. Helix just works out of the box pretty much, no need for a Doom Helix or Oh-my-Helix to get it comfortable to use.

In terminals I finally ended up on Ghostty, I think the only significant configuration I have is setting `macos-option-as-alt`.

As for shell, fish + starship prompt has been my choice for years now. Very little customisation needed for either.

And for all software I pick the one that stores its configuration in a sane format in a XDG compatible location so I can shove it into chezmoi easily (looking at you iTerm2).