I've been using Emacs since it was a set of teco macros. (Yes, there was an Emacs before Emacs lisp.)
Apart from some settings to keep a keyboard-grabbing co-worker happy several jobs ago, I haven't had a config file in decades.
My experience has been that whenever I need something news, Emacs had it several years before. The most that I've ever had to do is update to a version that isn't 10 years old, and that hasn't happened for a long time. (I keep computers for a long time and the first thing I do with a new computer is install Emacs. I rarely update it.)
I've looked at other text editors. They seem to be better on things that don't much matter to me. They often require configuration to do things that Emacs does out of the box.
Yes, there are some things that I'd like to be different and about every year or so I think about adding a config file, but then I ask myself whether I'm going to propagate that config file everywhere I use Emacs. So far the answer has been "no".
Apart from some settings to keep a keyboard-grabbing co-worker happy several jobs ago, I haven't had a config file in decades.
My experience has been that whenever I need something news, Emacs had it several years before. The most that I've ever had to do is update to a version that isn't 10 years old, and that hasn't happened for a long time. (I keep computers for a long time and the first thing I do with a new computer is install Emacs. I rarely update it.)
I've looked at other text editors. They seem to be better on things that don't much matter to me. They often require configuration to do things that Emacs does out of the box.
Yes, there are some things that I'd like to be different and about every year or so I think about adding a config file, but then I ask myself whether I'm going to propagate that config file everywhere I use Emacs. So far the answer has been "no".