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1. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 12:27:56 EDT hosh
   @arunisaac Like some others, I once spent a lot of time customizing emacs - in my case for writing - but then somehow managed to lose my customization file; it's one of those things you don't feel like doing very often, unless you're a lisp programmer.
   1. arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Aug-2018 12:05:15 EDT arunisaac

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      One of my first impressions when I moved from vim to emacs was that emacs lacked sensible defaults. A lot of things that "just worked" in vim had to be configured in emacs. But, now that I am comfortable with elisp, I don't really know if the defaults are that important. Perhaps emacs has a different philosophy that takes getting used to. Perhaps the lack of good defaults is a price for all that configurability and customizability.