Having spent almost a year fine-tuning my latest ~/.emacs.d, an innocent question from a colleague triggered a long chain of events, that led to dropping my entire Emacs config, and migrating to Spacemacs instead. It has a whole lot of interesting features, but for me, the most important one was the mnemonic key bindings: this is something I wanted to do for a long time, but never managed to force myself to sit down and do it. Now I don't have to, Spacemacs does it for me.