No, there are certain features and terms in Emacs which makes it very alien to the modern world. Things like the cursor being limited to the visable part of the

No, there are certain features and terms in Emacs which makes it very alien to the modern world. Things like the cursor being limited to the visable part of the buffer, the usage of "window" for a buffer and "frame" for an application-window. Also the way Undo/Redo works and such. If you really aim for a modern Emacs, then forking it and fixing it from the ground up might be not the worst idea longterm. Emacs is so old that it has accumulated quite a number of old cruft and debt.