No it is not. It is incredibly bloated and inefficient due to the the number of keystrokes required to do simple stuff. Eliza mode. I've personally watched so

No it is not. It is incredibly bloated and inefficient due to the the number of keystrokes required to do simple stuff. Eliza mode. I've personally watched some incredibly talented researchers/engineers using emacs to perform every-day work; For a lot of the operations, it would have taken me 5 seconds in vi/vim, but took > 10 seconds for said (very brilliant) folk. As in, some of these folk are world reknown and regularly cited in(and are reviewers of) ACM/IEEE computing related journals. So no: Emacs is not sexy. Emacs is a fuster-cluck so complex as to be completely counter-productive.