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I don't think it sucks much at first at all... Most people I know that have a hard time with emacs don't want to learn anything fancy and think the arrow keys a

by j2d2 18y ago

I don't think it sucks much at first at all... Most people I know that have a hard time with emacs don't want to learn anything fancy and think the arrow keys are fine for navigation. Let them watch you program for a few minutes and they'll be so impressed that they'll happily learn the new commands. OR, they're not cut out for technology anyway...

kaens 18y ago
I had a bit of trouble with it at first, until I realized that I was supposed to be pulling it apart and making it bend to my every editing whim. The combination of keyboard-focused editing, on-the-fly extensibility, and decently thorough and clear documentation has made emacs my editor of choice for just about everything. Not to mention that you can get a constant source of ideas to code to keep yourself sharp, if that's your sort of thing.