[simonmysun]

I had exactly the same experience: I learned vim and started enjoying reading the manual, and then I started to use emacs. Unfortunately, the number of emacs users around me is fewer and fewer. To be precise, there is no one using emacs in my daily social circle anymore. I no longer hear people arguing whether vim or emacs is better, and have to solve any problem I met in emacs myself.

Apps nowadays don't need a manual because they have very low density of information and very low density of functions. Engineers who refuse to maneuver anything without reading the manual first becomes rare. This is not completely bad because it means the living condition of engineers improved.