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Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy
Disclaimer: All ways of using Emacs are valid ways of using Emacs. This is describing just one.
But over time I’ve settled on an approach that has kept me far from bankruptcy using off-the-shelf financial advice: frugality, and paying back debt. Due to its lack of features, the third-party flycheck brought in a wave of innovation, and became the defacto standard syntax checker. Historically, undo-tree provided this, but in doing so it reimplemented a large part of undo functionality, resulting in a 4500 line package.
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