Rebuilding Emacs config from scratch

I'm going to spend time this morning rebuilding my Emacs config from scratch. It's fun for a minute. I'm going to keep a running log here for now, since I can't yet use Emacs for it.

Had to swap emacs-plus for EmacsForMac download, since I was getting compiler errors otherwise. See #720

Using Prot's basic setup to start.

Disabled key check (setq package-check-signature nil) in order to install consult package