My God... The Windows native port is a 37 MB download! O_O

*dies*

I thought SciTE was bad for taking almost 2 MB, but 37 MB for a mere 
text editor?

But of course, a cursory inspection of the online Emacs tutorial quickly 
reveals that Emacs is not, in fact, a text editor. It's a replacement 
operating system. (But one which is none the less only compatible with 
Unix.)

Not content with merely being a text editor, it also tries to be a 
newsreader, web browser, file manager, calendar, and even a Tetris 
clone. Unfortunately, from the screenshots I've seen, it does none of 
these things very well.

(People may complain that SciTE is primitive, but at least it can manage 
ANTIALIASED TEXT. :-P Emacs just looks like an ancient console app 
grafted to look superficially like a modern program...)

Does anybody know what the hell "C-u 10 C-f" is actually supposed to 
mean? What the heck is a "meta key"? Why are cut and past called kill 
and yank? The list of questions goes on and on.

Having used FractInt, I know that a text interface *can* be quite 
efficient. But only after decades of use. FractInt, of course, tells you 
at almost every step what keys are available. Emacs does not.

In spite of the hiddeous UI and cryptic controls, I might almost have 
tried Emacs if it wasn't for the huge size of the download. Clearly I'm 
going to have to wait until I get home to try it out - if I bother at all...

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