One of my primary reasons for using emacs is because I decided I wanted to learn how to do as much of my computing from a terminal as possible, and emacs is clo

One of my primary reasons for using emacs is because I decided I wanted to learn how to do as much of my computing from a terminal as possible, and emacs is closer to an OS itself than just a txt editor. (I know enough vi vim to do just fine when on systems without emacs though.) Another reason is because I conciously have decided that gnu and gpl are what I want to run whenever possible, which also affects my other tool choices, eg, screen vs tmux.