Prelude

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Prelude, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Key bound to an anonymous lambda, so the user can't jump to its definition2023-09-05
Guru-mode forcibly blocks normal keys, annoying the user who must disable it2016-09-18
Guru-mode is annoying to use with Prelude2016-06-22
Customizations make Emacs behave differently, and broken setups are hard to diagnose2013-12-20