Best editor?

[John J. Lee]

"ChinStrap" <caneff at gmail.com> writes:

> When not using the interactive prompt, what are you using? I keep
> hearing everyone say Emacs, but I can't understand it at all. I keep
> trying to learn and understand why so many seem to like it because I
> can't understand customization even without going through a hundred
> menus that might contain the thing I am looking for (or I could go
> learn another language just to customize!).
[...]
> Opinions on what the best is? Or reading I could get to maybe sway me
> to Emacs (which has the major advantage of being on everyone's system).

Two reasons I use emacs:

1. For any question "Can I do X with emacs", the answer is almost
   always "yes, use this code that's already written and working"

2. I already know it ;-)

BTW, I use vi keybindings, and I imagine all other editors can do the
same (though perhaps not as well as viper, the emacs package that does
this -- see 1. above), so that's no reason in itself to use vim.


John