On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 10:52:12PM +0200, Stefan Kangas wrote: [...] > They are principally meant for users of GNU/Linux, as that is the > primary OS that Emacs is developed for. Keep in mind that not > everyone who uses GNU/Linux is automatically a power user [...] Is that just a "gut feeling" or do you have anecdote/data to back that up? I don't have data, but at least anecdote to offer: as someone pretty well immersed in GNU/Linux circles, I see semi-power users mostly using Geany or (second) KEdit; non-power users even tend to use LibreOffice (remember, on the Dark Side folks also insist on using Word as a text editor, because a text is a text is a text [1], right? Power users in GNU/Linux split (unevenly) between Vi(m) and Emacs. Some sprinklings of nano who upgraded form the more advanced group above. My hunch (but remember: I've got anecdote, not data) is: A GNU/Linux Emacs user is, in the overwhelming majority of the cases, perfectly well-equipped to beat her Emacs config into whichever submission she needs. Actually, she'll enjoy doing that. Exceptions to the above (and IMHO /these/ would be the interesting ones) might be "special" cases: those for whom Emacs solves a very specific problem no other editor does well: think speech integration, cross-language literate programming, humanities, things like that. All of that my hunches, of course. Cheers [1] cue in seasoned sysadmins trying to rescue a situation where /etc/passwd has been edited with Word: yes, I've had that! - t