> emacs... text editor... doesn't try to be more than that Enter meme about emacs OS. My big issue with emacs is that it isn't installed by default everywhere

> emacs... text editor... doesn't try to be more than that Enter meme about emacs OS. My big issue with emacs is that it isn't installed by default everywhere, whereas at least vi is pretty nearly everywhere (except windows). Vi is pretty good, vim is better, and emacs is a different beast altogether. However, I'm considering switching to emacs because it's not just an editor. I think org mode is awesome, and I'm playing with it using evil mode so I get the best of both worlds. I've seen awesome renderers hacked into it (LaTeX, PDF, HTML, etc), and pretty much every emacs user gloats about the crazy features that they've thrown in (e g. web browser). People seem to use emacs because it's more than an editor, and people seem to use vim because it's just an editor. Yes, you can do crazy stuff in vim as well, but people in general seem to prefer simpler configs in vim and more crazy configs in emacs. Yes, emacs doesn't try to be an IDE like Visual Studio, but it also tries to be more than a simple text editor like nano or vim.