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One problem for a vim user like me is emac's terrible first use experience. The delete key doesn't delete, it opens up help [1] and quitting is very difficult [

One problem for a vim user like me is emac's terrible first use experience. The delete key doesn't delete, it opens up help [1] and quitting is very difficult [2]. Also what people don't know at first start is which key is their meta key. A key that is super important in emacs. That it gets this first basic experience so terribly terribly wrong turns a lot of people off within a few critical settings of having run the thing. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/DEL-Does-Not-Delete.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/DEL... [2] http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs219/CourseNotes/Unix/emacs-startQuit.html http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs219/CourseNotes/Unix/emacs-sta...

nic-ferrier 13y ago
I have been using Emacs for a long time and I can't remember the last time it got the wrong key. If you're using a graphical Emacs (for OSX or X or Windows) I think it hardly ever happens? Doesn't happen to me and I use all 3 of those.
fafner 13y ago
[1] > In some unusual cases, Emacs gets the wrong information from the system, and <Backspace> ends up deleting forwards instead of backwards. [2] That's not the case with the GUI version because it works like any other application (File->Quit or the [x] button). In terminal it's a bit different but it's not like vim is any easier here.