Why not allow empty code blocks?

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 7:15:36 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Even tools that have existed for 25 years have benefited from the
> intervening time. No-one uses Emacs *as it was 25 years ago* and expects
> to be as proficient as someone using Emacs as it is today.

As a general comment — fine
Your exemplar however is ironic

What everyone calls window it calls frame; what everyone calls pane it calls
window because its legacy from pre-gui days

What everyone calls Alt it calls Meta and shortens it to “M-” because the Sun workstations that have been dead 20 years had a Meta-key

And the most annoying bugbear:

The whole world uses cua keys:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
it proudly sticks to what it was doing pre-cua

I could go on…