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Sensible defaults are a big part of it for me. Using VSCode means that I spend very little time configuring the editor, or setting up extensions.

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As far as Common Lisp goes, you could just install the Portacle distribution of emacs. This is essentially a fully-geared up CL IDE, including all the favourite emacs extensions for development (flycheck, company, paredit, magit, etc) and even SBCL and git!

It provides a single user.el file for user-specific configuration, but as it stands it is an excellent "emacs with great defaults".

Why would you spend time doing anything? You just do it once and commit it to github? That's how my vimrc lives.

Does doing it once not take time? I usually get bored halfway through and switch to an editor that works properly out of the box.

In fact, of course, doing it once is a pipe dream. Everything with vim and emacs 90% works, and you can spend infinite amounts of time chasing the other 10%.

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