RE: Issues with emacs

[Ludwig, Mark]

> From: notbob
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:28 PM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Issues with emacs
> 
> I realize emacs would be much more useful if I was a programmer,
> particularly a lisp programmer, but I'm not.  

This summarizes the split among the Emacs user community that I see in this 
discussion thread.  Those of us who are programmer types are probably a lot 
happier with Emacs as it is (and as it has been since its start many decades 
ago) than those who aren't programmer types.  Partly it's mindset, but also 
gets to depth of knowledge about how to use the tool -- and how to change what 
it does/how it works.

Regarding bloat, an analogy: if all you ever need is one specific knife blade, 
a Swiss Army Knife will seem to have a lot of bloat.

Cheers,
Mark