Why use emacs?
Benjamin Ferrari examines why emacs is an excellent choice for a text editor. He’s quite convincing (although in my case preaching to the choir): we all write volumes of text on our computers, day in and day out; wouldn’t we want to optimise that activity as much as possible? Why then do people limit themselves to such sub-standard tools as Microsoft Word or Nisus Writer or vim? Using those to edit text is much like hammering nails with screwdriver.
My father’s life-work has been translating the services of the Church from Greek into Latin; I can only imagine how much further along he’d be if he were an emacs user.