emacs as a binary editor: useful. Any other uses: counter-productive. I've (painfully) watched some amazingly gifted researchers/engineers using it, and saw t

emacs as a binary editor: useful. Any other uses: counter-productive. I've (painfully) watched some amazingly gifted researchers/engineers using it, and saw them waste about 50% of their attention trying to use it. Emacs is not an editor, it is an OS with non-obvious semantics.