Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?

[Karl Fogel]

On 28 May 2020, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> This seems like a reasonable solution to me. Alternatively perhaps we
>> just need to sell C-x C-f as "open a file or directory" rather than
>> "find a file"?
>
>A directory *is* a file.

Not in a sense that's meaningful to most non-programmers.  Even many 
programmers don't naturally conceptualize directories as files -- especially 
those who have learned programming in the WWW era, since they haven't had to do 
much programming in which file<->directory unity matters.

If explanations of Emacs features start to depend on people having filesystem 
programming experience, that will narrow Emacs' audience quite a bit more than 
necessary :-).

Best regards,
-Karl