Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)
No thanks.<p>I&#x27;ve had several bouts of trying to learn emacs throughout my life.<p>It isn&#x27;t necessary to list all the benefits, sure, there&#x27;s a lot. Yes, I get it&#x27;s &quot;extensible&quot; and you can write little elisp programs to do just what you want.<p>Here&#x27;s the obstacle: Motor skills. It just takes way to long to first memorize reams of commands and then to train your fingers to issue those commands effortlessly. In the meantime, searching, &quot;apropos&quot; and googling stuff isn&#x27;t an attractive thing to do when you have _actual_ work to do.<p>That&#x27;s a serious obstacle and no listing of all the awesome-ness of emacs is going to convince many of us to put in that kind of effort.