Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.05.2020 01:14, Arthur Miller wrote:
> I dont' know if others are like me and just want to do their typing, or
> if Emacs is nowdays better at introducing itself, but I remember my
> first time with it, and it was annoying.

It's probably better "at introducing itself" too, but not by orders of 
magnitude. But it for sure can do more, both with advancements in the 
core and with considerable help from the third-party community and the 
overall language support ecosystem (LSP, for example).

So it's quite powerful from the outset. And okay, maybe it will take 
some users a few months to start writing their own commands (and some 
will simply never do it), but it all depends on how they were introduced 
to Emacs, and what their immediate needs are.