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Re:How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technolo... by nn3 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:42PM (#25625929)
A super customized system is more like a pet. A mostly standard system with very limited tweaks is more cattle.

Like the OP I used to be in the having "pets" category (including gigantic ~/.emacs), but these days I prefer cattle (defaults as much as possible)

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Re:How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technolo... by tom_ on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:40PM (#25627105)
Put your Emacs config in a git repo, and this problem goes away.

You don’t even have to stop there. I have a repo for my Emacs config, a repo for my Windows bin folder, a repo for my Unix shell stuff, and a repo for a bunch of cross-platform Python scripts I’ve written. Every computer I use regularly is super customised in exactly the same way as all the others. Takes about 10 minutes to get up and running.

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