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 doesn't require you to learn a lot of keystrokes to work with it like with any other text editor. The difference is if you want to learn/add more you can.

The only problem i see with emacs keystrokes is that alt/control are in different places on every damn keyboard (and sometimes don't even exist)