One of the reasons why I kept driving into Emacs land was the dopamine effect of "Oh, shit, I didn't even know it could do this..." Over the years my attitude has changed. Now it's purely "task oriented" — whenever I need to get something done, I'd raise a question "can I do that in a more efficient, delightful way?"
Sometimes that manifests into adding a TODO item into my notes. Often I simply start experimenting with basic Elisp in my scratch buffer. These days I may ask an LLM.
When non-emacs muggles mock emacsians for wasting their lives to "maintain" editor config, they don't even realize — for an experienced Lisper their emacs is not like a self-made car that constantly requires attention, it's more like a garden — if you want to eat apples — you'd have to get your hands dirty, but that knowledge and time aren't wasted — you can then use the primitives you built to grow many other things later.
Sometimes that manifests into adding a TODO item into my notes. Often I simply start experimenting with basic Elisp in my scratch buffer. These days I may ask an LLM.
When non-emacs muggles mock emacsians for wasting their lives to "maintain" editor config, they don't even realize — for an experienced Lisper their emacs is not like a self-made car that constantly requires attention, it's more like a garden — if you want to eat apples — you'd have to get your hands dirty, but that knowledge and time aren't wasted — you can then use the primitives you built to grow many other things later.