I've been using Emacs for a decade and still have never had to write a single package of my own. Every time I have a good idea, someone else has already implemented it.
I donate little bits here and there when I can, but I'm unfortunately not in financial position to give what I think the maintainers deserve. Instead I try to submit documentation patches to projects whenever I find myself digging through the source code trying to answer a question the docs didn't make clear.
I've written a few specialisms that couldn't really be open-sourced. e.g. wiring up inf-ruby and internal dev tools to open up a rails console in dev, or generate a jwt from the auth server in the cluster.
The only package I've been ultimately responsible for is the Gruvbox theme[^1], but that was very quickly handed over to other emacsers :)
I still find it a joy to write and it's one of my more preferred rabbit holes to dive into. Maybe one day there'll be something more to share :)
Oh wow, I used to use that theme. Thanks for making it. Yeah, most of the elisp I write is mostly just glue code, not something that makes sense to package and distribute.
In what way do you find it too chatty? That hasn't been my experience, but I do use a pretty small subset of it. Are you using it on its own, or with helm/ivy?
It could have been hel or ivy I was seeing. I don’t like the mode line moving (growing the minibuffer) as I typically keep my eyes on part of the buffer and don’t want anything moving (or worse, obscuring where I’m looking)
