Well I don't particularly feel the need to convince you, but I can tell you some of the advantages that Emacs has for me: completely mouse-free operation (impor

Well I don't particularly feel the need to convince you, but I can tell you some of the advantages that Emacs has for me: completely mouse-free operation (important to me for ergonomic reasons), available freely everywhere I want to work (give me emacs and firefox and I could do 99% of my work), one-stop shop for any language or platform (I use it as my email reader, my usenet reader, for documents and for code in any language under the sun), trivial to use remotely over ssh, without X, etc. But dude, whatever works for you is fine.