[rmurri]

Yes and no. I generally don't recommend emacs to everybody by default because I've come to realize it's not what everybody wants. Until people want to have a powerful, customizable editor I recommend something pretty and user friendly. Perhaps sublime text, where they can ease into being productive.

That said, I do definitely recommend it to people on a case by case basis (Power users, command line gurus, mouse haters, etc). Those who make it over the initial learning hump tend to really love it.