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Sorry, but that's just nonsense. If you want to actually sell something, I would expect to have at least a summary of main selling points right there, at the front page. Expecting the potential buyer to dig through the manual to even learn what the software actually is beyond the "emacs like editor" is ridiculous. For me it just means it is yet another editor for obscure OSes (OS/2 ?), one of thousands on the market,…
> If you want to actually sell something Perhaps its authors want to achieve other objectives than just sell something, or think it's more appropriate for their users and target public. There's certainly the possibility that they aren't really sure how selling things on the Internet works. However, I'm willing to entertain the possibility that the guys who've been selling this for 32 years know what works for them be…
I wonder who would that be. Mind you, programmers who shop for an editor are usually very knowledgeable about what they want. They know how to extend Eclipse or Emacs or Atom or VS Code or whatever they have ever laid their hands on.