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My comment was only to clarify that the keyboards have changed over the years and that historically, there was a more rational basis for the keybinding ergonomics than it might seem today. Part of the reason that Emacs is configurable is that there were lots of different keyboard layouts many years ago and the design view was that there is no one right way. One of the things I like about Emacs is that the philosophy of many right ways is consistent with mine and I don't think there is one right way of editing text and hence there is no one right text editor.

What I like about Emacs is that I can use it with just about any programming or semi-programming language I come across without having to learn a new IDE or editor. The other thing I like is that the capability ceiling of the tool is so high that I am constantly making significant progress in terms of efficiency. So the cost of learning it, was and is worth it for me. If I was writing Java or C# or Pharo most of the time, I'd probably uses different tools.