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Incredible work; I’ve cut down my config immensely by deleting external packages, using built-ins as much as possible, and emacs gives you a lot more out of the box now.

That said, magit is the star of the show.

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Has anyone figured out how to pair magit with git-sim (https://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-sim) so that you can use magit's controls but then get a picture of what you're about to do before you do it?

Just do it, and learn to use the reflog ("l r" from magit buffer). Although of course be aware of the few things that can trample your workdir like reset --hard. If in doubt, commit/stash everything, to the thing, then see what it did.

Same here. Really happy with eglot as well. I tried it with Go and all I needed in my config was:

    (use-package go-mode :ensure t
        :hook ((go-mode . (lambda () (setq tab-width 4)))))

And it works the emacs way, not trying to be something more "modern" (i.e. VS Code), which to me is so much nicer than all the lsp-ui nonsense that I was using before (no popups, docs show up in the minibuffer as it ought to).

For extended docs beyond the minibuffer, I've found that M-x eldoc works very nicely with eglot and follows the Emacs way.

Ok that does it. Going to finally cave in and recreate init from scratch this weekend. Thanks.

Did that this morning. Been using Doom for years as my config base and got tired of not really "knowing" emacs and not being able to quickly solve problems. Finished my own mostly vanilla emacs conf this morning.

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