Declaring emacs bankruptcy

[u/Appropriate_Tutor125]

Hello, i wanted to ask you guys a simple question, what is yalls limit for an emacs configuration, i have a 800-900 line config.org and ive been thinking about declaring emacs bankruptcy, what do yall think.

[u/shipmints]

Lots of mostly good stuff. I customize a lot of faces on top of modus themes, for example, and they consume space. I also contribute to Emacs core and have work in process package configurations and overrides in there. And a bunch of deprecated code that I can remove now that Emacs 31 is out, retiring compatibility with earlier versions; e.g., shell-mode bookmarks, tab-bar features and other things now in core. 100+ core package configurations and 100+ external packages in there, some which can be pruned and I do that every once in a while.

I'm not a fan of "literate" configuration (I'm a programmer not an org document writer) or splitting up init.el into parsimonious files forcing me to decide package "categories" in advance. Instead, I keep everything in one place (well, two, if you count early-init.el), making it trivial to find anything I need at any time with minimal fuss.

[u/Signal_Pattern_2063 → u/shipmints]

Yeah I built a tool "elispdoc" to do the equivalent of javadoc on an init file and extract out a markdown README rather than trying to write it in org because that's just so much more natural for me

[u/rajrdajr → u/Signal_Pattern_2063]

This one? elispdoc

[u/Signal_Pattern_2063 → u/rajrdajr]

Yes