Yet another Emacs bankruptcy post

Yep, it's another one of those "I've declared Emacs bankruptcy" posts!

About a month ago, for some reason I thought that it would be a really cool idea to completely revamp my Emacs configuration. I can not really say why I thought this might be a good idea, but to add even more salt in that festering wound I also thought that it would be even more cool to not go the way of use-package. Why would I want to do that? I have no idea. Is it because I want to keep things as pure as possible and avoid using any packages? Not even close. I think it's probably because there have just been a small handful of issues that have cropped up over the years with that macro, as amazing as it is - it's still complicated. I had also been reading a couple of other posts from other users have had gone this route, and I just thought that it would be fun to do.

Having been a Doom Emacs user over the last few years, being used to the "it just basically works really, really well" setup that they provide, every single time that I have tried to go the "create my own configuration" route, I find myself attempting to recreate the experience provided by Doom. My latest configuration basically takes Doom Emacs and wraps it all into a literate configuration - static files and all. It's worked really well, but it does make things a little hard to update, especially the Doom core files. It also makes things interesting when setting up a new machine. Not challenging, but it does require plenty of support documentation.

Now I've decided to not go all out and rebuild the Doom Experience. I've got a handful of packages that I find useful and have decided to go the route that most people would advise - in that when you find that there is a feature you're missing would be the time that you look into installing or enabling some feature. Assuming that you actually know, or are able to put a name to whatever that feature might be. Ha. That is one thing that the larger Emacs distributions do help out with, in that they offer up a hand picked selection of packages and settings.

It has been about a week since I've opened and use my doom setup, so I think I'm doing pretty well at this point. I don't plan on repeating this point in my personal history.