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Definitely a younger crowd. Back in my day if you blindly copied code without reading the documentation thoroughly there is no way that Emacs would be doing anything remotely useful. That was the sort of thing Emacs was mocked for, in fact - you really needed to get in amongst Elisp to customise it and nobody goes out of their way to learn Elisp.

Being able to blindly copy use-package statements has been one of the best parts of the Emacs modernisation effort.



Oh for sure, I agree, and I've blindly imported reams of elisp dependencies myself!




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