When the author starts going on about IRC and email within emacs the first thing that came to mind was an old joke: "Emacs has everything, email, chat, and eve

When the author starts going on about IRC and email within emacs the first thing that came to mind was an old joke: "Emacs has everything, email, chat, and even a web browser, hopefully next year they include a text editor" or "Emacs, for when you want to do anything but edit text" Now I will readily admit that I use Vim for my day to day work and have not spend any significant time in emacs, but I do find the many control commands jarring and difficult to remember. My boss is a big emacs guy, and whenever I help him with code or he helps me with code we make fun of each others editing environments :P I hope to eventually have the time to learn emacs to its fullest and understand it. Being able to use a variety of different editors won't hurt.