Are they extremely popular? Or are the users just more vocal about it? I went through the whole emacs tutorial and still have no idea what I'm doing. It's very

Are they extremely popular? Or are the users just more vocal about it? I went through the whole emacs tutorial and still have no idea what I'm doing. It's very difficult and counter-intuitive. On the other hand notepad++ does everything I need it to do and works right out of the box. I definitely think emacs is cooler and has more features, but you can guess which one I use day to day.