Re:Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
by m463 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:28AM
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> So, overall, it has the potential to be a great time suck
The most important productivity step is to launch your editor.
Unfortunately if every time you launch your editor, you get distracted by the editor itself... Well, your init.el will be well maintained. :)
This is true, to an extent. I have not touched my current Emacs configuration in about 6 months now, but it took years of tweaking and probably hundreds of hours to get it to a state where Emacs was mostly the way I wanted it... though it'll never really be complete, as there are still a lot of things I'd like it to do that it doesn't yet but could, and there are always new things I could do that would be interesting or new, more efficient ways to do what I'm already doing.
So, overall, it has the potential to be a great time suck, and certainly was for me when I first started.
How much time it'll take for you really depends on your needs, and how much you're willing to live with the defaults that Emacs and its various modes and packages provide, and how much tweaking and customization you want to do. I needed and wanted quite a lot myself.