One thing which annoys me about emacs is that it doesn't do threading or non-blocking i/o when saving a file. If I save a file on a remote machine (sshfs mount

One thing which annoys me about emacs is that it doesn't do threading or non-blocking i/o when saving a file. If I save a file on a remote machine (sshfs mounted), it stalls the entire interface. I only use emacs, so I don't know if "modern" text editors are better at this, but I certainly expect them to be :)