As a long-time Emacs user, I think you're not totally wrong. The thing is, it's the idea of Emacs that's important; you could argue that Emacs itself is an ant

As a long-time Emacs user, I think you're not totally wrong. The thing is, it's the idea of Emacs that's important; you could argue that Emacs itself is an antiquated and idiosyncratic implementation of that idea. I'm fine with parallel attempts at programmable editors; seems like a win.