Emacs' Undeserved Reputation

In a post titled &ldquo; Is Emacs Hard to Configure &rdquo; on his blog Irreal, JCS discusses the oft-heard complaint that Emacs is difficult to configure. He objects, rightly so in my opinion, saying that many non-programmers also use Emacs. The post on Irreal was prompted by this discussion on Reddit. User precompute claimed that Emacs is not hard to configure, so long as you understand Elisp .…