I really like that analogy. I think emacs succeeds because of three things mainly: * It's so vitally important to people for their day to day work that it simp

I really like that analogy. I think emacs succeeds because of three things mainly: * It's so vitally important to people for their day to day work that it simply can't fail. I would far sooner trawl through, and modify, the worst elisp in the project than switch editors - I expect I'm not the only one. * A (relatively) big, chatty and friendly community of smart hackers. * It's simply fun to hack.