Smooth scrolling alone makes me often opt for not-Emacs (running plain Emacs in OS X). I&#x27;ve tried several solutions to solve this from googling, never found anything that was effective.<p>As a mouse user as well, sometimes selecting text with my mouse&#x2F;positioning with mouse works fast, and I&#x27;ve always found text editors to not really be too great at letting me click accurately between characters.<p>Also, if you get into more IDE-y features, not having your &quot;popup&quot;s be overlayed colored text is usually a win for aesthetics. And hey, if I&#x27;m staring at something 8 hours a day, having it be pretty is nice right?