Jack Baty

Director of Unspecified Services

Vanilla to Doom to Vanilla

No one will be surprised to learn that I've changed my Emacs config again

I'd been happily using Doom Emacs until just over a month ago, when I decided to start from scratch again.

It didn't take long before I started missing some of the niceties of Doom. I'm faster when using Doom/Evil, and sometimes it's good having things taken care of for me.

So, at the beginning of January, I switched back to Doom.

After a week using Doom, I was feeling pretty comfy. Too comfy, in fact. I couldn't shake the feeling that every Doom keybinding I internalized brought me closer to depending on Doom. It made me twitchy. Every time I typed something like SPC m a a or put a Doom macro like after! or map! in my configuration, I felt like I was spending time learning someone else's tool.

So, this morning I switched back to my vanilla config.

Now I feel better. I'm a little clumsier, and sometimes I wish I didn't have to do everything, but dammit it's MINE! 😄.