Best editor?

[Georg Brandl]

beliavsky at aol.com wrote:
> ChinStrap wrote:
>> When not using the interactive prompt, what are you using? I keep
>> hearing everyone say Emacs, but I can't understand it at all. I keep
>> trying to learn and understand why so many seem to like it because I
>> can't understand customization even without going through a hundred
>> menus that might contain the thing I am looking for (or I could go
>> learn another language just to customize!).
> 
> Epsilon http://www.lugaru.com/ is a commercial Emacs-like editor with a
> built-in Python mode and will automatically treat .py files as being
> Python. No fiddling is required. It works well, and I spend many of my
> waking hours in front of an Epsilon (even created a Fortran mode :)). I
> think Epsilon is used more on Windows than Linux/Unix, where Emacs and
> XEmacs have existed for a long time, but an Epsilon license contains
> binaries for Linux and other Unices as well.

$250 just for an Emacs clone? Sorry, but this is a bit greedy. Sure, it does
some things differently, but in the same time you learn Epsilon, you can
learn Emacs.

> XEmacs/Emacs frustrate me, for example constantly asking if I want to
> enable a "recursive mini-buffer", which I have no clue about or
> interest in. Epsilon is a well-done Emacs IMO.

constantly? You seem to make fundamental mistakes using Emacs. Reading one or
two tutorials could have helped.

mfg
Georg