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+title: On editors and plugins
+date: 2025-08-14
+draft: true
+---
+
+The healthy package ecosystems that extensible editors have is a standout feature.
+
+After setting up my first neovim package manager,
+I never hesitated testdriving cool plugins from the community.
+I installed a terminal plugin that without really having problems with `:term`,
+or using a file manager without ever trying `:netrw`.
+After a while, I found neovim overloaded with more features than I understood,
+and frequently hit problems that encouraged yet another plugin to fix.
+The issue wasn't that I had too many plugins per se,
+it was that I didn't really understand what they did.
+I promptly declared config bankruptcy.
+
+Going forward I strictly used plugins that were worth their weight.
+That is, how they affect performance as well as any cognitive slowdown.
+I quickly found that when a plugin strays too far from core neovim,
+like not hooking into builtin functionality or not reusing normal keybinds,
+it wouldn't make the cut.
+It is simply not worth learning if it doesn't enrich the editor as a whole.
+
+Using this philosophy for a few years,
+the only external plugins that survived were
+LSP completion, a proper code formatter, and fzf for search.
+Some plugins ended up in core neovim,
+like language aware commenting and better compile commands.
+Most were deleted.
+
+This meant my editor was really good at editing text and code projects,
+and not much more.
+It was fine that it didn't have a UI for viewing GitHub stars or whatever.
+I could live without
+
+## Enter emacs
+Modes reshape emacs to better fit certain work.