Long term emacs user, and I agree. I need to learn to program it but more importantly, I should be able to install a package and have it work because I use emac

Long term emacs user, and I agree. I need to learn to program it but more importantly, I should be able to install a package and have it work because I use emacs for just that - work. There's too much 'add this include your .emacs' etc. But it's getting better.