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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It's a plain fact (confusing to you, I know) that Emacs was perfectly usable on machines with way, way smaller memories and way slower CPU's than what low-end consumer hardware has today. Even pocket, mobile hardware.

Try putting an extra level of quotes around "knowledge", and use fuddy duddy a few more times, and you might have the start of some counter-argument, ya never know.