This makes Emacs great. It is a night and day difference. Multiple times I&#x27;ve tried to transition to Emacswithout it and just couldn&#x27;t see why people love it. Spacemacs is a great default distribution and solves some major pain points of initial setup and &quot;sane&quot; defaults. There&#x27;s still a couple things that I&#x27;m not quite hip with (installing new &#x27;layers&#x27; without restarting, among a few others), but it&#x27;s probably because I don&#x27;t know enough about it yet.