Comment by Koshkin

Having been using emacs on and off, both on Windows and Linux, and having found it being useful on some occasions, I somehow can't help thinking of it as more of a historical artifact than a toolset I would want to use on a daily basis. Being a very powerful personal computing environment and kinda fun to use, to me emacs still falls short in the ways that, for instance, UNIX command line interface with its simple single-purpose utilities never did. I am not even talking about the need to remember a gazillion of context-dependent key bindings, because with the command-line utilities you also have to remember the correct switches. I guess, this may be the case of needing to make a choice; but, if I am ever to be forced to actually make one, I'd probably settle rather for something like a full-blown desktop environment, or, should I find myself in front of a text terminal, Midnight Commander (whose built-in text editor now even offers syntax highlighting, for those who like it).