You are comparing Emacs with Notepad++. You are then not using Emacs as it's supposed to be. The actual power of Emacs is realized once you learn elisp. Coding

You are comparing Emacs with Notepad++. You are then not using Emacs as it's supposed to be. The actual power of Emacs is realized once you learn elisp. Coding, documenting, commiting, blogging, browsing, file/dir manipulation, etc. all can be done efficiently using the same familiar buffer editing philosophy within Emacs.