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Honestly, I'm not so sure. Emacs isn't known to be user friendly, I can easily imagine many non-techies simply refusing (consciously or, more likely, unconsciously..) to learn it.

>>kiallm+(OP)
Turn on CUA mode to get the traditional shortcuts, don't hide the menu bar and toolbar - and now Emacs is being operated exactly the same as any other programmer's text editor out there.

The reputation of user unfriendliness is undue, and based mostly on looking at how pros work with it.