I was caught off guard by a #DecemberAdventure in March. This one's only a week, and a busy one at that. I'm spring cleaning my Emacs configuration. I started from nil, scratching at what itches, and restricting myself to Emacs builtins to see what could be left behind.
The first thing I deeply miss is magit as I grapple with vc.
https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-march-2026/
Ross A. Baker
shomvc is good and handles backends other than git. But magit and org-mode are the biggest Emacs differentiators for me. So I kind of want magit to be part of Emacs like org is. Aside from the great advantage of it being available in a unconfigured Emacs installation, it will also give y'all Emacs purist hipsters one less thing to yak-shave 😝 (tone clarification: collegial teasing, not passive aggressive)@shom I rarely use Emacs without Nix, so I can tolerate a lot of dependency heft. But I think a periodic trip into `emacs -Q` is helpful. Previous attempts like this are how I picked up project.el and eglot.
But, yeah, I yearned for Magit almost immediately.