Comment by jjav
6 months ago
>it's not self-documented enough to just pick up and use with no instruction.
If they just plop you in front of a 3-d printer never having seen one and having no documentation, it'll probably take you a good while to produce something useful with it.
All good tools require training & experience.
That's really not the case. I learned programming in the DOS Borland apps and did it with next to no instructions. I don't think I've ever seen the manual. Just read about the language itself. They were that easy to understand and use. Emacs is not in the same class as far as discoverable interface is concerned.
The difference here is that this person has likely used text editors before and still couldn't figure this one out.