Making Emacs Popular Again
I&#x27;ve used emacs for maybe 18 months solid. I never found it had a single feature that my other editors didn&#x27;t have (not saying it doesn&#x27;t, just staying I didn&#x27;t run into them).<p>My other editors can be extended via scripts. My other editors (mostly) have keyboard macros, repeat, etc.. My other editors can be used efficiently keyboard only. My other editors debug various languages. My other editors open shells in the editor. I don&#x27;t care about org mode, I care about editing code.<p>Conversely many other editors do their best to be dev env aware, reading&#x2F;understanding&#x2F;integrating various language environment project files, which was never something I found in emacs (maybe it&#x27;s all been added since I my emacs times)<p>About the only thing I still would consider using emacs for is editing in a shell remotely but (a) usually it&#x27;s not already installed and (b) usually I&#x27;m not editing anything serious remotely.<p>What&#x27;s special about emacs? What am I missing that&#x27;s not in other editors?