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I tried several times, but I just can’t get EMacs or org mode working.

It’s like every single functionality only works 90%, and breaks on the last 10% required to actually be a valid alternative :(

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I think a hurdle one has to make to adopt Emacs is to stop expecting things to work as you might have come to expect them from other programmes. Sometimes this is for historical reasons, but the main reason is that Emacs just has it's own logic, which may seem counterintuitive at first but often has very good reasons behind it. Try to persist past through that final 10% and you may find there are reasons why they're as they are. And when you need help use the channels out there...

Try asking your favorite LLM.

ChatGPT4o has been a godsend for adding helpful snippets of Elisp to my own ~/.emacs file.

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