> nothing else comes even close to just immediately giving you a textbox to spew characters into On my machine, when there's an Emacs daemon running in the bac

> nothing else comes even close to just immediately giving you a textbox to spew characters into On my machine, when there's an Emacs daemon running in the background (so no existing windows, which might make this process faster), opening a new window ("frame" in Emacs terminology) and then closing it again takes 165 milliseconds total. Google gives various values for "human reaction time", but one of them is 200 milliseconds. I'd say that that's pretty close. Unless you need to save those 12 MB of memory that the Emacs daemon consumes. You're free to use whatever editor you want, but I find the claim that "nothing else comes even close to just immediately giving you a textbox to spew characters into" a bit doubtful.