> Is anybody here consciously trying to keep their Emacs configs/setup "lean", minimalist, as small as possible?

Me too, for some reason. I've been using Emacs for 8 years and my init.el is 94 lines long. I guess the defaults mostly work for me.

Have you ever considered using any of the tiny clones of Emacs instead? So you'd get the lisp-y experience without the "kitchen sink".

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Any connection to https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune ?

No connection. Naming things, sigh. It’s hard to find an unused name these days.

Thanks for the heads-up