Every time I read about emacs it sounds really cool. I have tried a few times to sit down and get myself into it but I can never get past the initial learning curve.

I think a word like “easy” is the wrong choice when you consider the large amount of perquisite knowledge needed to “write a few lines of code to do any random thing at all”. My impression from reading what its users say, is that it is elegantly and endlessly customizable. If you have the foundational knowledge already. But when you consider what is required to obtain that position, “easy” is not how I would describe it.

But then, out of all the people who probably could use it, it seems that very few of them do. I cannot have any insight on why that is.