[morelisp]

I chuckled at "be specific" when it asked for issues you ran into when first starting to use Emacs. Whatever it was that led me to use XEmacs for a couple years at first is both completely out of my head and certainly irrelevant to people today. (I think it was something to do with OOTB integration with whatever print spooler I had configured!)

[cannam]

My biggest problem at first was that the Unix server (a Gould NP-1) didn't have enough memory to run an Emacs instance for every terminal in the class, so it was painfully, agonisingly slow. The joke about "Eight Megs And Continually Swapping" would have been very real, if only I had heard it then.

I really hated Emacs at the time. I only stuck with it because the alternative was vi.