> I should probably declare configuration bankruptcy and try starting over from scratch.
Give Doom a try. Even if you're not a Vim (Evil) user. What I like about Doom, is that it has nice package management and an easy-to-navigate structure of modules. Also, it has a relatively small core and doesn't get in the way of you changing things around. It includes CLI tool you can use to update packages and verify the validity of your config. And because of macros like map!, after!, add-hook!, defadvice!, undefadvice!, add-transient-hook!, cmd!, etc. it seriously cuts down a lot of boiler-plate in the config.
I don't even use most of the "official" modules included, I use them as some kind of recipes to borrow ideas from. If for any reason in the future, I decide to leave Doom and build my config from scratch, I probably still end up using a bunch of things from its core.
Give Doom a try. Even if you're not a Vim (Evil) user. What I like about Doom, is that it has nice package management and an easy-to-navigate structure of modules. Also, it has a relatively small core and doesn't get in the way of you changing things around. It includes CLI tool you can use to update packages and verify the validity of your config. And because of macros like map!, after!, add-hook!, defadvice!, undefadvice!, add-transient-hook!, cmd!, etc. it seriously cuts down a lot of boiler-plate in the config.
I don't even use most of the "official" modules included, I use them as some kind of recipes to borrow ideas from. If for any reason in the future, I decide to leave Doom and build my config from scratch, I probably still end up using a bunch of things from its core.