Emacs is unusable.

For the love of God - use another text editor! If it's something that requires a foot pedal to work with it normally, then... well... frankly, I'm speechless. There is a multitude of powerful contemporary text editors out there that don't require you to memorize volumes of arcane keystrokes or buy fancy hardware.

You know, I can understand and accept a lot of things, but a foot pedal for a simple text editor is really where I draw the line.

Emacs is too hard for people who can't remap the shortcuts. Emacs' not perfect either, it kind of sucks in its many special own ways, but it's the best out there right now, which may be sad but it's reality.