Go do multi file grep in BBedit in front of an emacs jock one day. Look what I can do by finding a menu item! You mean something like this: http://i.imgur.com/

Go do multi file grep in BBedit in front of an emacs jock one day. Look what I can do by finding a menu item! You mean something like this: http://i.imgur.com/0pieh.png http://i.imgur.com/0pieh.png ? It has been almost 10 years now since GNU Emacs got GUI, and XEmacs (as the name suggests) had it even earlier, and yet many people still believe that Emacs has only console interface. I think the main reason is that most Emacs users (me included) turn off menu and tool bars so that they're not distracted by them -- almost nobody uses them anyway, because moving hand from keyboard to mouse and clicking through menus is so annoyingly slow. There are many uninformed opinions in this thread, about Vim, Emacs and heavyweight IDEs like MSVS or Eclipse as well. Please, refrain from bashing things you do not know, because it usually sounds silly for those who do know them. But, yeah, all's fair in love and war, especially when you're fighting for your loved editor.