I'm not one to argue about productivity. It's a term I never found very meaningful, so I cannot be sure other people mean the same that I understand when I hea

I'm not one to argue about productivity. It's a term I never found very meaningful, so I cannot be sure other people mean the same that I understand when I hear the term. For me it's not about lines of code per unit of time, but about what feels right, and that's very subjective. Dependent on the task I can probably make a decent amount of progress without Emacs, too, so I wouldn't argue that my productivity depends on it. But this Emacs environment is molded after my habits, so it's a really comfortable place, an extension of my body, much like a good tool for wood working that fits your hand just right and lets you work directly on an object without having to think of the tool as a mediator between your body and the work piece. I wouldn't work with computers if I didn't feel comfortable. Thanks to the flexibility and hackability of Emacs I'm a lot more comfortable doing computer work than I would be without it, meaning that I'll become a gardener a couple of decades later than I would without it.