One of the problems with Emacs, especially out of the box, is that its constituents don’t communicate with each other as comprehensively as they ought to. This is expected given the bazaar nature of its development: it’s an amalgamation of elisp libraries written by different contributors over decades, few of whom were aware of many of Emacs’ existing capabilities they could reuse or plug into. I covered a couple of examples of this deficiency in my series on Batteries included with Ema...
