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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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.