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Emacs is a tool with an enormous set of available functionality that has been continuously developed for 35 years. Moreover, its major strength is its programma

Emacs is a tool with an enormous set of available functionality that has been continuously developed for 35 years. Moreover, its major strength is its programmable and nearly infinitely-extensible nature. And yet, it does "just work", from the moment you first run it -no previous experience needed- it does present you with a familiar "editor skin". It does offer you an interactive tutorial. It does come with comprehensive offline documentation. It does come with the best interactive querying and documentation capabilities of any software system in wide-use today. So, taking all of that into account, when you say "just works", I read "I don't want to spend any time whatsoever to learn 35 years of features and a software system that is by far the most user-empowering in existence today". Your loss.

Bost 5y ago
> It does offer you an interactive tutorial. :facepalm: Yeah, my 8 years old niece will be taught "Informatics" in the school. Starting in a few days, actually. I'm sure she will enjoy Emacs over Notepad, since Notepad doesn't have any interactive tutorial. > It does come with comprehensive offline documentation. To avoid using precisely that, some years ago, I created myself a little extension of the engine-mode which opens up a browser and searches on the internet using a proper search engine. Here's the code: https://github.com/Bost/dotfiles/blob/c262e4dd7c5a498ce5d75c102d9829a5261b6a4e/emacs/my/packages.el#L106 https://github.com/Bost/dotfiles/blob/c262e4dd7c5a498ce5d75c... Enjoy > It does come with the best interactive querying and documentation capabilities of any software system in wide-use today. I managed to learn how to write my own plugins, macros, spacemacs core extensions, etc. I hope one day I'll learn how to use the emacs interactive documentation, too. Eventually.

Bost 5y ago

> It does offer you an interactive tutorial. :facepalm: Yeah, my 8 years old niece will be taught "Informatics" in the school. Starting in a few days, actually. I'm sure she will enjoy Emacs over Notepad, since Notepad doesn't have any interactive tutorial. > It does come with comprehensive offline documentation. To avoid using precisely that, some years ago, I created myself a little extension of the engine-mode which opens up a browser and searches on the internet using a proper search engine. Here's the code: https://github.com/Bost/dotfiles/blob/c262e4dd7c5a498ce5d75c102d9829a5261b6a4e/emacs/my/packages.el#L106 https://github.com/Bost/dotfiles/blob/c262e4dd7c5a498ce5d75c... Enjoy > It does come with the best interactive querying and documentation capabilities of any software system in wide-use today. I managed to learn how to write my own plugins, macros, spacemacs core extensions, etc. I hope one day I'll learn how to use the emacs interactive documentation, too. Eventually.