> This question is more- what motivates you to be an Emacs-er? Why do you use it? I did a bunch of quality time with TECO on the PDP-10. I started using emacs

> This question is more- what motivates you to be an Emacs-er? Why do you use it? I did a bunch of quality time with TECO on the PDP-10. I started using emacs-like editors back in 1985 under Coherent or so when DGC wrote MicroEMACS, which is now MG on most systems. EDIT: this was a replacement for good old ed. Later, under Dec Unix I used emacs . I have stuck with emacs ever since as it does what i need it to and is easy to add functionality and automation for many tasks.