> Even though it could be seen as a positive point, I think that all the great plugins emacs has make it very bloated, and that’s a problem to me. For instance,

> Even though it could be seen as a positive point, I think that all the great plugins emacs has make it very bloated, and that’s a problem to me. For instance, Org-mode, which is a wonderful piece of software, should have benefited much more people if it was a standalone application. To me, it feels like starting using emacs will lead to using your computer to run emacs, and all your applications inside emacs. It even has an IRC plugin and an email reader plugin! That's the point, yes. Emacs' philosophy isn't so much text editing as it is using text as a convenient representation of something else and then having a powerful set of text-editing primitives you can use to manipulate whatever it is you're using text to represent. Living inside Emacs means always getting to use those customized, "slick" (in the author's words) text editing commands to do everything. Emacs has gotten to where Web browsers are going, except Emacs isn't evil unless you actively make it so. ;)