> "user-hostile" on purpose I seem to recall reading that the keyboards that emacs was originally developed for had the CTRL key in the middle left (where the

> "user-hostile" on purpose I seem to recall reading that the keyboards that emacs was originally developed for had the CTRL key in the middle left (where the modern, useless, "caps lock" key is). The awkwardness of the CTRL key on modern keyboards makes emacs seem unnecessarily user-hostile as well, but that's also not something that Stallman could reasonably have predicted.