There are definitely other programmable text editors available. I use Textadept, which is like Emacs with Lua and minimalism instead of Elisp and evrything-but-

There are definitely other programmable text editors available. I use Textadept, which is like Emacs with Lua and minimalism instead of Elisp and evrything-but-the-kitchen-sinkness. Of course it doesn't do nearly all that Emacs does but it feels as programmable to me.