&gt; I&#x27;m looking for a good text editor that has a simple and quick scripting capability.<p>Vim and Emacs have neither of these things. They both pose a long and difficult barrier to entry.<p>However it sounds like you aren&#x27;t looking for simple and quick. If you are running into limitations on your current editor, then it&#x27;s time to swallow the pill and dive into one of the behemoths.<p>I don&#x27;t know of any text editor that is guaranteed to have less limitations than Sublime Text, but also has a &quot;simple and quick scripting capability&quot;.<p>I would recommend Vim as it&#x27;s main focus is as a text editor. Emacs tries to do everything, Vim just tries to edit text. Emacs also has a mode that enables Vim key bindings, so if you choose Emacs later, you won&#x27;t have to start from scratch.<p>Lastly, Emacs uses a dialect of Lisp for customization. Vim has it&#x27;s own made up language. So this may be a reason to choose Emacs over Vim.