Sometimes, you don’t need full on (Emacs) Bankruptcy, sometimes you just need to…restructure some things in your config. You know, give those config files a little haircut. That’s what I did today.

Most of my configuration was well enough coded that I didn’t need any real rejiggering, just some trimming and cleaning up here and there. There were some clear parts that I had started, but never did anything with. I was also curious about some of the mechanisms that I never really explored out of the box. I was also kind of tired of compiling Emacs every couple of days to stay on top of the new (bugs). So I had some cleanup to do vis-a-vis going back to Emacs 28.2 in Debian stable.

So far, things are good. The default theme is nice, I also am using GUI Emacs for a change (Lucid toolkit). Still mulling over if that’s a wise choice, given my distaste for variable font sizes. We’ll see. I tried CUA-mode for a month, I can stomach some font changes for a while.

I find the more that I use Emacs, the more that I calcify some options. Things like diary, calendar, flyspell and vc-mode over newer stuff like Org or Magit. I’m also willing to try new packages if they’re able to improve my workflow. I keep trying the vertico+orderless+corfu+marginalia powerhouse every so often, but I find that it’s just a tad bit too flakey for me. Then I try helm and I’m overwhelmed.

Hopefully this restructuring will let me find some more packages that really hit home and become permenant fixtures of my configuration.