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volforixon The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs

Good point. I'll switch back to Emacs as soon as it's best tool for my task again.

volforixon The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs

After using Emacs for years (huge fan!) I finally realized that Emacs hinders my productivity instead of improving it. Thus I moved to other tools, sadly, and never looked back.

In this case I would use Text Extractor (part of M$ PowerToys) and Google Translate.

volforixon Advantages of CRT over LCD

None.

volforixon How to Walk (12 miles a day)

I have roughly the same routine. However, I have been lucky to have two additional components on many occasions: * Super interesting conversations with my walking comrades. * LSD / mushrooms / MDMA. Apart from doing garbage collection on my subconscious psychedelics make thinking and talking much more fulfilling and satisfactory.

volforixon Paredit mnemonics for slurping and barfing Lisp symbolic expressions

Try smartparens. It's a successor to paredit and works for other languages as well. I have never coded (and navigated code) faster than in Clojure on Emacs w/ smartparens.