Yeah, one of the best programmers I've ever worked with would launch Epsilon (a commercial emacs style editor for various OSs) each morning and then do _all_ of

Yeah, one of the best programmers I've ever worked with would launch Epsilon (a commercial emacs style editor for various OSs) each morning and then do _all_ of his work from it. The closest I come to that is messing emacs keyboard shortcuts when I'm not using a Mac. I really wish that there were more programs which completely re-examined all aspects of various tasks _and_ incorporated scripting in a fashion which allows folks to take advantage of it. Some of the apps I would consider if putting together such a list: - LyX --- billed as a "What You See is What You Mean" Document Processor, v2.4 is looking to be quite promising... - TeXshop/TeXstudio --- the former in particular is _very_ nice for folks who aren't able to devote the effort to learning emacs - pyspread --- have a spreadsheet where every cell can contain a Python program or SVG graphic is _way_ cool --- I just wish it was as flexible as Lotus Improv/Quantrix Financial Modeler - Solvespace --- I wish I could do better with 3D --- usually I fall back to OpenSCAD, esp. now that there's a Python-enabled version: https://pythonscad.org/ https://pythonscad.org/ though I often use: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor - TikzEdt/IPE --- I really wish there was a nice graphical front-end for METAPOST/METAFONT (or that the graphical front-end for Asymptote was more flexible) On the gripping hand, one has to give props to the Krita folks for making scripting a first-class citizen: https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/introduction https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/introduction