With a starter config like this, do you think I’ll need to follow the repo for changes and adapt my own config according to it?
I used something like this for neovim (can’t recall the name) but because the API and plugin system was changing so rapidly I often found that I would have to rebase on config on the repo’s HEAD which was a bit of a bummer.
I would expect to need to update one’s configuration, at most, when updating to a new major version of GNU Emacs. They release new major versions rather often for nearly 40-year-old software, but not too often: about once per 1–2 years currently.
The pace of development seems to be trending upwards currently, but still, personally, I trust Emacs’s development process’s maturity not to create burdensome amounts of churn.
The changes that new major releases introduce seem to be mostly
uplifting the most widely used plugins to be included with Emacs;
adding improved APIs for plugin authors, which most users needn’t learn; and
small quality-of-life improvements that either are optional or require no configuration change.
“When I started learning Emacs, my dad gave me his .emacs file.” :D
Yes, this is the most Emacs thing ever, and also totally wholesome.
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With a starter config like this, do you think I’ll need to follow the repo for changes and adapt my own config according to it?
I used something like this for neovim (can’t recall the name) but because the API and plugin system was changing so rapidly I often found that I would have to rebase on config on the repo’s HEAD which was a bit of a bummer.
I would expect to need to update one’s configuration, at most, when updating to a new major version of GNU Emacs. They release new major versions rather often for nearly 40-year-old software, but not too often: about once per 1–2 years currently.
The pace of development seems to be trending upwards currently, but still, personally, I trust Emacs’s development process’s maturity not to create burdensome amounts of churn.
The changes that new major releases introduce seem to be mostly
Thanks