Fellow emacs user/addict. Emacs is, to steal a phrase from the politics, the "least bad form of editor" IMO. Your criticism of elisp, dynamic scoping, and mutab

Fellow emacs user/addict. Emacs is, to steal a phrase from the politics, the "least bad form of editor" IMO. Your criticism of elisp, dynamic scoping, and mutable-state everywhere is spot-on. To use emacs is to constantly put up with things in a state of "almost works, kind of broken". Partly the language and design, and partly just the culture of the editor, I think. (For me personally being able to run in a terminal is a huge feature, which means I'll probably be stuck w/ emacs forever -- no one making new editors seems to care about terminal support.)