Why Emacs Is Great?
Emacs Is Extensible the Gnu Emacs Manual Describes Emacs as the Extensible, Customizable, Self-Documenting, Real-Time Display Editor. and with a Good Reason...
Why do people prefer Emacs?
Emacs is like the best of the best of editors: It's multi-platform. It's incredibly customizable thanks to Emacs Lisp and (M)ELPA. It can do everything loosely related to text, including reading my e-mail and visiting websites.
Is Emacs worth learning?
If your goal is to become a better programmer, then no - emacs won't help you. However if your goal is to be more comfortable working with files and doing development on unix systems particularly on the command line - then yes, emacs is a fine editor to learn.
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