This is not a useful plan. Building eMacs produces a binary that depends at runtime on loads of libraries that you haven’t installed on the outer system.
Just don’t bother doing this.
sleekelite
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I mean, as a practical matter they are correct - most things people care about IDEs doing are just built in in other IDEs or doable via plugins. emacs is extremely niche and most people are correct to use something else.
It is an important skill to not care what other people use and not care what they think about what you use.
It’s sort of a silly question.
To customise emacs beyond clicking around in ‘customise’ you need to write elisp. If you learn little elisp then you can only customise it using other people’s code, if you learn a lot of it then you can write an mua.
You decide where you want to be on that spectrum.
tc;du it’s a library to recreate magit’s rather nice context sensitive menu system for other things