Re: basic settings of Emacs

Am 26.02.26 um 16:07 Uhr schrieb Gottfried:
> I have got a basic question.

When I switched to Vanilla Emacs some three years ago, I faced a steep
learning curve. I read all the manuals, all package documentation, all
books published on Emacs starting from "Learning GNU Emacs", and I tried
almost all packages I came across. Everything I needed to know I wrote
in the comments of my config file. As a result, my .emacs file became
longer and longer, and startup time also grew. And the comments had
become rather comprehensive. So I was looking for a solution to all that.

I ended up rewriting everything into an Org file in Literate Programming
style. This way, I have a handbook of my Emacs configuration that can be
as long as I wish. I keep maintaining it from time to time whenever I
change something about my configuration. And my .emacs---which also
contains my Gnus configuration---gets tangled from that Org file from
time to time. Is is only some 560 lines long because it contains only
code, no comments at all. This is why it's loading so quickly.

I avoid splitting up information into several files because I want to
have everything in one place.

As tpeplt already said, "Different people will have different answers to
your questions." Here are my 2ct.

Best regards,
Jürgen.