I started with nothing. I believe that just like every Jedi must build their own light sabre, every Emacs user should build their own dot-emacs. Conversely, thus spake the great French philosopher: "hell is other people's .emacs"

Emacs is a stern taskmaster, but she repays the investment in multitudes.

Glory be to the thermonuclear text editor.

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