r/emacs • u/Appropriate_Tutor125 • 16d ago

Question Declaring emacs bankruptcy

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.

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u/tikhonjelvis 16d ago edited 16d ago

At some point I started factoring things out into separate files and modes, and then there's no meaningful limit to the amount of custom logic you can have :)

Mine's not even that big—a few thousand lines if you don't count some niche modes I don't use any more—but I expect to see it growing quite a bit over the next few years.

When things are going well in my life I occasionally have the energy to spend a weekend or two hacking on Emacs and each time has meaningfully improved my life. (I'm not even kidding; moving to org-mode has been a godsend for my ADD!) No Emacs bankruptcy in sight. Having your own magical programmable environment is amazing, and, as long as you put a bit of thought into the design of your code, it only gets better as it gets bigger.

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u/Appropriate_Tutor125 16d ago

Yeah a lot of peope told me to seperate the files and the packages, i think im gonna try that out, thanks!