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Ah, hacking on your tools. The perfect way to procrastinate. !emacs
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@jfm …and become more productive on the long run
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@arnebab I'd hope so, but I wouldn't swear to it. Hacked find-file-in-project support into prosjekt.el.
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nice! — even if the exact features do not offset all the dev time, hacking on your tools is a great way to learn → more productive ☺
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and to improve your tools. If we all do it and share our work, the improvements in productivity should cumulate to some degree.
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That's the official line, at least.
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yes :) - and it works quite well for most of free software, though the development is mostly on seperate components with lean API.
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(isn’t that a great way to say “we just write what we like and use what others created”? :) )