Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?

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magit is pretty useful! In particular, I use M-x magit-blame for blaming a file line by line and jumping to previous versions, M-x magit-status to stage individual files, M-x magit-log-buffer-file to know the file's history. Very helpful when tracking down bugs.
`M-x kill-emacs` low key slaps, no cap.
Back in the day I remember really enjoying irc inside emacs. A bunch of fun customizations there too.
ido. Still the fastest find-file replacement. None of the modern options can match it in keystroke count since they fail to pre select from history.
Got my heart warm thinking about ido-mode.
ooh so many to choose from ... but what makes them great is actually the integration between them, made possible by everything being a text buffer. gnus, org, wgrep/wdired, occur, consult all work together to improve each other.