I've reached the point where I finally had to say goodbye to the emacs configuration that I've been evolving for the past 15 years or so in favor of a more standardized approach because the framework I was using (prelude) required an additional step that didn't gel well with my dotfiles initialization. I have just about most things working well but there are still so many little annoyances left. It's going to be a rough transition but I've burned the proverbial boat by renaming the modules.