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I comment every line of my neovim configuration no matter how obvious it seems to be at the time. I assume when documenting that I won't remember what that config name does. Would that work for emacs?


Many people do that: “Literate configuration” is quite popular in the Emacs world, where you basically write your config as a “document with code blocks” instead of a “code file with comment blocks”. For a well-crafted example, see e.g. [tecosaur’s config](https://tecosaur.github.io/emacs-config/).

Part of the problem is that Emacs configs have traditionally grown much larger than the typical Vim/Neovim config :)




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