For me, the problem with emacs is that (1) it's slow and (2) so many features are half-broken. To use the most random example, I'm using something to intelligen

For me, the problem with emacs is that (1) it's slow and (2) so many features are half-broken. To use the most random example, I'm using something to intelligently soft-wrap code (which is great!), but for some reason sometimes it doesn't work in C# mode. And in fact, loading C# code gives some random error in font-lock sometime. (Maybe these are slightly unfair since they're 3rd party code, but trust me, the entire emacs ecosystem lives in a state of "kind of, sort of" works.) Here's me complaining about slow text rendering: http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/2e8byy/slowass_text_rendering/ http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/2e8byy/slowass_text_r... Still, I keep using emacs because so far nothing else I've tried touches it. But I dream of an editor with the flexibility of emacs, but a strong focus on speed and correctness. (And terminal support -- terminals are very much still with us!) A tall order, I know :)