I’ve done the email workflow for a bit. I’ll say this much: it might be comparable to configuring a power editor vs. using some powerful and ready-to-go IDE. You can set up things how you like and the preferences of everyone else doesn’t really matter. You can also just edit anything because it’s fast and there is probably a good enough configuration for all kinds of languages and modes.

But in some ways it isn’t. Like any fool (like me) can just get some Emacs configuration for free from others. There doesn’t seem to be that kind of sharing for all the fiddly little things you need to do with git-send-email and the rest. All I’ve heard so far is that, oh yeah I usually deal with this specific issue by running some Perl scripts that I wrote eight years ago and that I’ve been nurturing ever since. But it wouldn’t be very useful for you because it’s very, very idiosyncratic. Might not even work outside Debian and my Apt state...