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people think emacs users use emacs for it's sheer power but i think that is the wrong perception to have (and promote).

the sheer power is in it's key bindings. it lets you literally take full control of texts with pin-point precisions just like a surgeon does with his tools. the speed and efficiency of it is just un-matched by any text editors out there. i've seen some power vi/vim users get close to speed but still can not rival against a power emacs users. long live emacs.



I like being able to easily write my own functionality. It would take weeks to do on Eclipse what I can do in a leisurely afternoon on Emacs.

Archaic a dialect of Lisp as it is, Emacs Lisp makes Java look like something out of the 50's.




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