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.

I'm no Emacs fan here, but this bullshit about Emacs requiring big hardware is laughable coming from 4chan. Emacs memory requirements were an issue on hardware that was built before you kids were born, and even then it was comically exaggerated.

In the 1980's people had Unix workstations with just a few megabytes of memory. I didn't use such machines at that time, but a similar situation echoed in the 1990's, with Linux becoming available the average hacker on cheap Intel hardware which again, had a few megabytes of memory, like those old workstations. People ran Linux on stuff like 25 Mhz 386SX boxes with 4 megs of RAM, and 40 meg hard drives. Emacs ran on that hardware. Heck, X11 with Emacs inside an xterm ran.

So you're just mindlessly propagating decades-old hand-me-down bullshit.