only now I realize I misread your comment as saying "besides tree sitter and eglot there is not much in emacs"
and somehow that is not what you said.
is this what you meant: "Now that modern IDE features (syntax parsing and LSP support) are built into Emacs out of the box, I don't feel like I'm missing out on modern editors like Zed. I’m ditching my bloated, outdated Emacs configuration file and starting fresh with a clean, lightweight setup that relies on standard built-in tools."
Ohhh, got it. Yes, correct. I’ve used Emacs for ages. Some newer editors came along with more powerful language features that I’d wished Emacs had. Now that the editor ecosystem is converging on LSP and treesitter, and Emacs supports those well, it now has identical capabilities to those other editors. Now there’s nothing the others can do that Emacs can’t, or at least nothing I really care about.
More tersely, since adding LSP and treesitter, Emacs has every cool feature I want from every other editor out there.
And yes. I’d slowly evolved my config over years, starting with ancient settings and gradually adding layers of tweaks on top of them. I’m starting over with a new config, using the built-in features whenever possible, and tweaking those into the modern equivalent of what I had before.
By analogy: I’m upgrading from a hand-maintained Debian 7 install and switching to the new apps in Debian 14 when I can.
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Why would you infer that? Magit’s great!
oh.
only now I realize I misread your comment as saying "besides tree sitter and eglot there is not much in emacs"
and somehow that is not what you said.
is this what you meant: "Now that modern IDE features (syntax parsing and LSP support) are built into Emacs out of the box, I don't feel like I'm missing out on modern editors like Zed. I’m ditching my bloated, outdated Emacs configuration file and starting fresh with a clean, lightweight setup that relies on standard built-in tools."
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then apologies for my confusion.
Ohhh, got it. Yes, correct. I’ve used Emacs for ages. Some newer editors came along with more powerful language features that I’d wished Emacs had. Now that the editor ecosystem is converging on LSP and treesitter, and Emacs supports those well, it now has identical capabilities to those other editors. Now there’s nothing the others can do that Emacs can’t, or at least nothing I really care about.
More tersely, since adding LSP and treesitter, Emacs has every cool feature I want from every other editor out there.
And yes. I’d slowly evolved my config over years, starting with ancient settings and gradually adding layers of tweaks on top of them. I’m starting over with a new config, using the built-in features whenever possible, and tweaking those into the modern equivalent of what I had before.
By analogy: I’m upgrading from a hand-maintained Debian 7 install and switching to the new apps in Debian 14 when I can.