It's OK. I know a few dog groomers and they're all nice people.
spauldo
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If you're talking about Microemacs, it's not a fork. It's unrelated to GNU Emacs. The name Emacs has a long twisted history going back to PDP-10 machines so you'll find various text editors with "Emacs" in their name.
The only active fork of GNU Emacs I know of off the top of my head is Remacs, which is a project to replace the C code in Emacs with Rust. It's probably not what you're looking for.
Honestly, I think you're overestimating the impact of the "bloat" in Emacs. Emacs starts up with a very minimal set of features (compared to what is available) and doesn't really push any of that on you. If you turn off the menu bar (which I don't recommend), you'd have to search for it intentionally to find it.
Bear in mind that GNU Emacs is not a text editor. GNU Emacs has a text editor. It's a platform for Lisp applications. The text editor is just what you get by default when you don't ask for anything else.
In your scenario? WFH. I like my work and hate traffic.
If I lived five minutes away from the office like I used to? I'd go in, assuming they'd let me be flexible with my time. I like being in the office. My coworkers are great and if I get burned out on what I'm doing I can go play with the hardware in the lab.
In real life? I live 100 miles from the office and work from home. I miss the comradery and being able to just walk down the hall and kick a piece of malfunctioning equipment directly though.
I should have clarified - the configure script is only for stuff built in to the C source code. It won't get rid of the games and whatnot, but remove support for things like sound, graphics formats, bignums, etc.
I suppose you could try deleting stuff out of /usr/share/emacs, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Assuming you're on UNIX and have relatively new hardware, sure. On my Haswell-based Xeon setup at home (built in 2014, runs a Debian variant) you get a second or two delay. On my Xeon-based Dell work laptop (bought in 2018, runs Windows with WSL1), it's about the same. Both use native compilation.
org-mode is a beast.
I load most things I use in my init.el. I'm not worried about startup times because I rarely restart Emacs.
I've been using it since before reddit existed. You'd almost think that people from different areas talk differently.
I work with government people all the time, and I think it's highly dependant on what the project is and what part of the government is running it.
We've worked with the Navy and, well, their "experts" for the work we do are a joke. My company designed the system they use and all the experts that work on it work for my company.
We've worked with the Army Corps of Engineers and it's completely different. The people we worked with were knowledgeable and thorough in their work. They specify exactly what work is required and will make sure it's done right.
State/local governments are also hit-or-miss. Often they don't have experts at all and it's up to us to work with them to determine what they need and how to implement it. But sometimes there's the old graybeard who knows the system in and out and can fix anything. I like dealing with those guys. They're usually full of character and you can learn useful things from them.
We see this all the time as an integrator. The project I mostly work on is so off the wall that there are maybe four people who are experts on it. The fire and security system we were asked to build for a school system is so custom that nobody is an expert; I'm the only guy that knows how the backend works (because I wrote most of it from scratch in a mix a C, TSQL, and Wonderware QuckScript), but I'm clueless on the front end.
I walk into places running old end-of-life Modicons running LL984 ladder logic and don't know a single person outside Schneider-Electric that understands that stuff besides me. I'm not an expert, but I'm all that's available.
Our business development team is always asking us, "do we have people who know xxx?" and I have to tell them no, if you want to bid on that job you need to hire an xxx expert to do the design and lead the project. Occasionally we do.
There's a trend of companies requiring workers to show up at the office for two or three days a week. It's a real thing; my office requires three days for people that live in the area. Several friends of mine are seeing similar policies at their offices.
Some people just aren't productive at home. That's why our office set the new policy. We didn't want to lose good talent. Fortunately for me I live 100 miles away and work fine from home.
The ads for remote work are generally trying to hire experts that would otherwise be unwilling to move.
It's considered more polite than "elekchicken."
How is that hard to believe? I was already an adult when the Internet became open to the public. My basic speech patterns were pretty well set by then.
English is one of the most spoken languages on the planet. How is it you expect everyone to sound the same?
Maybe you should consider traveling.