Hey... could you write about one or two of the worst offenses? I consider myself an emacs/elisp power user, yet somehow (M)ELPA seems pretty doinked out-of-the-box on a stock Debian nox-emacs install. I just thought it was me.
Hey... could you write about one or two of the worst offenses? I consider myself an emacs/elisp power user, yet somehow (M)ELPA seems pretty doinked out-of-the-box on a stock Debian nox-emacs install. I just thought it was me.
My apologies, but I no longer remember. I only remember my huge annoyance that almost anything I did, even successful, led to some warnings or unnecessary notifications in the command bar. Always some noise there. Not to mention the occasional actual failure in a plugin leading to huge stacktraces and leaving me with a partially working editor that kind of still works but not quite.
My brain mercifully deleted all details. At one point I really had enough (and waiting for 19 years for an editor to get better is IMO having an angelic patience that Emacs did not deserve) and just moved on and forgot all about it.
Fair enough. I envy your brain's ability to excise editor-induced trauma. There are so many things about modern EMACS I don't like, but for me I think it's inertia that keeps me in a co-dependent relationship with it. (and... I have to admit... it does do many things well.)
I was in a co-dependent relationship as well. I have to admit it was extremely uncomfortable to "part ways".
> * I envy your brain's ability to excise editor-induced trauma.*
That's a really funny way of putting it, thanks. I am simply one of the people who never truly settles and if something irks me for long enough, I ultimately cut the toxic element. And yeah it's often painful.
But that also gave me my amazing wife. If I stuck with my toxic ex I would be absolutely nowhere in life right now.