Well, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but

Well, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but hey, did you ever try to run Emacs with no elisp packages?