Yes, if you ask people who know how to use emacs what they would change, the answer is going to be very different from the answer you’d get asking people who have tried to use emacs and gave up.
The documentation does really suck. The terminology makes no sense to users not used to it. It does not explain that to make this into a functional system, some configuration needs to be done. It is terrible out-of-the-box. ‘Because this is how rms did it 45 years ago’ is not really a good excuse.
The documentation does really suck. The terminology makes no sense to users not used to it. It does not explain that to make this into a functional system, some configuration needs to be done. It is terrible out-of-the-box. ‘Because this is how rms did it 45 years ago’ is not really a good excuse.