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.

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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,

Why speaking about something which you have no first hand experience with?