emacs is not that hard. You can learn emacs in one day—every day.
I really f'ing love Emacs, and... this is true. I'm still constantly learning, 3 decades in.
But that's part of its appeal - it's a constantly evolving, you tweak and modify it for your needs, and you grow and change together.
I just felt that many people may get lost in it when first using it, the same way ppl get lost in vim. At least I managed to get lost in both of them when I first tried them.
Ohh, I know, I was just making a joke cuz ed will print
?when it doesn't recognize a command and many people will see that over and over if they can't figure out how to exit lolI also got lost in vi and ed when I first used them lol
Tbh if I'm just making quick edits to config files or whatever I use nano lmao
got me there : )
I am unfortunately so used to vim and its bindings that I suffer whenever I can't use it. It can be really tricky to do certain operations in other editors.
Kakoune is probably the only editor that respects the UNIX philosophy, and I love it. But I also don't like how there's no linter and formatter for the same - maybe a daemon-based approach is probably better?
If you like Unixy editors, highly recommend also looking into acme
Russ Cox describes it in this video as more like an "integrating development environment" as in it works with your surrounding operating system rather than an "integrated development environment"
Doesn't shine as much on Unix as in Plan 9 though. Also no linter or formatter built into or distributed with acme but you probably could get your language's usual tools to work pretty well with it
