> Meet. Your. Users. Where. They. Are. I think you're missing the point. Emacs is an editor that is tied to programmers, where most of its users are programmer

> Meet. Your. Users. Where. They. Are. I think you're missing the point. Emacs is an editor that is tied to programmers, where most of its users are programmers. It's not a general purpose text editor. And while MacOS as an operating system for general purpose usage has done incredibly well due to its intuitive design first approach when it comes to developers many have pointed "your users" have pointed out that its interface and philosophy is restricting. > It doesn't matter. When people talk of editing documents in Word, they speak of opening a file, not a buffer. But nothing in emacs says you can't open a file. Just that the contents once it's opened are in a buffer. But if you open files outside of emacs they'll be opened as independent windows. By the same token we shouldn't be able to have a window split in frames, because Word opens each file in a window? The naming is a necessity for disambiguation. And in fact, the idea of what you have open is a file does introduce problems. How many people you know *ucked up because they didn't save changes? They afterwards learned the hard way what is a buffer that every program uses (even in photoshop, or other software) but didn't learn it's name, just that you should save it every N minutes...