My post wasn't to be about Emacs, but let's give it a try. I'm happy to help. Actually some of the things you mentioned are super awesome strengths to me. 1.

My post wasn't to be about Emacs, but let's give it a try. I'm happy to help. Actually some of the things you mentioned are super awesome strengths to me. 1. key bindings. I understand your point and you are right. But hear me out^^ I'm using Emacs on the Mac and Linux daily. Sometimes I fire up Windows for some cross platform app. Those three OSs have usually different key bindings and would have so in a regular GUI tool. Not in Emacs, though. They are all the same. Muscle memory win^^ Plus, I changed _many_ key bindings in Emacs to that they work better for me - across all OSs. 2. Server mode. Hm, I'm not having an issue here, but I cannot say that with confidence, because I rarely shut down, I always suspend (closing the lid on the MBP). 3. Variable Width Font. Have no expertise here. I tried that once, but it messed with how the code looks aligned which seems important to me. Again, sorry, would love to help, but just don't have expertise in this. 4. Default settings. You're right spot on! This is not an accident, but on purpose. The reason is that they are General Text Editors opposed to most others. That means that could do anything if you teach them. The others can do specific things faster. This approach has served me well and I have huge configurations in VIM and Emacs. Now I'm actually doing everything in Emacs, Mail, writing Books, PDFs, Todos and so on. Of course you don't need that to get going. It's just awesome that you can continue to improve your main tool for ever and ever^^ I learned how to do these things by reading other people's config. If you'd like to look at my Emacs config, it has lots of prose documentation for other people to read: https://github.com/munen/emacs.d/blob/master/configuration.org https://github.com/munen/emacs.d/blob/master/configuration.o... I hope some of that was helpful. One more thing, it's OK if you only seem to vaguely get that VIM and Emacs are worth it. Took me a couple tries, too. Same with most things that are worth it. Like getting to know the right Woman^^