How I use my terminal

It is sad that we have to know how to configure tens of small utilities just to be productive. I ended up using emacs with some packages that I configure minimally, after spending a few hundreds of hours on ricing the shell, file managers, tmux, etc

Emacs is why I can't go back to terminals.

I haven’t delved into emacs yet. Don’t you still have it configure it and all its tools?

emacs is a lot easier to configure than anything else IMO because it’s self-documenting. If you want to know how to use or configure some command it’s trivially easy to jump to the source code of that command and just see how it works (or modify it, step through it with a debugger, etc). You can’t do that in any other environment as far as I’m aware.

That said, yeah, it certainly doesn’t Just Work out of the box the way something like vscode does.