Comment by lproven
6 months ago
> couldn't even figure out how to save a document
100% this.
It is (counts on fingers) 43 years since I got my first computer of my own, and I've been using Unix-like OSes since just 6 years later in 1988... So, 37 years?
Still, even now, Emacs is this bizarre thing that teleported in from 1962 or something. Older than Unix, older than -- well, anything else still used by almost anyone except Cobol and Fortran.
I am old, starting to think about retirement, and Emacs is weird and clunky and ugly. It uses weird nonstandard names for things like "files" and "windows" and even the keys on your keyboard.
I know they are native and natural for the fans. I'm not one. I'm a fan of the great era of UI standardisation that happened at the end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s.
I wish someone would do a distro of Emacs with ErgoEmacs built in, on by default, and which could pick up the keyboard layout from the OS.
ErgoEmacs is a brave attempt to yank Emacs into the 1990s but you need to know Emacs to use it, so it's not enough.
VS Code is the spiritual successor to the Emacs architecture, with JavaScript instead of Elisa.
You mean ELisp?
Autocorrect, sigh.