> “With a modest amount of effort, emacs could be made to have appealing aesthetics and sane defaults…” Sure, for some peoples use cases. Also “modest amount”

> “With a modest amount of effort, emacs could be made to have appealing aesthetics and sane defaults…” Sure, for some peoples use cases. Also “modest amount” isn’t really true for new users. The time it takes to look up potential configs, figure out how to make changes, play around and see if that’s what they want from their editor, and in general figure out what’s possible doesn’t really happen in a “modest amount” of time. > “>Emacs is not so much an editor as it is a tool well-suited for writing custom editors.” There is nothing wrong with this comment, it is a correct statement because emacs by your own admission is a flexible tool that can be modified to one’s liking. For a lot of people that means tailoring it around their workflows/uses before it’s actually useful to them.