My argument is that modern IDE's are HIGHLY functional out of the box. I'm sure that Emacs can be competitive with Notepad++ in just an hour or two- but without

My argument is that modern IDE's are HIGHLY functional out of the box. I'm sure that Emacs can be competitive with Notepad++ in just an hour or two- but without learning the extension ecosystem, some configuration, buffers, and a lot of keybindings- You'd probably be much more productive in VSCode after that hour. For instance- search and replace. I'm not an IDE user, but I'm sure I could pop open any modern IDE and find and use search and replace in roughly 5 seconds. Emacs- is that discoverable? Or does it require documentation?