[icodemuch]

I've been using Sublime since I started and have no complaints. That being said I always hear about emacs referred to as the OG. I know there's positives and negatives to both, but is there any pressing reason to switch from one to the other?

[renlo]

With emacs/vim (etc) you can edit text from within a terminal, which becomes quite helpful when you SSH in somewhere. Also, with a terminal multiplexor like tmux or screen you can also easily jump from shell to shell, which has personally improved my productivity substantially from when I was using GUI based text editors like Sublime or Notepadd++.

[TeMPOraL]

> With emacs/vim (etc) you can edit text from within a terminal, which becomes quite helpful when you SSH in somewhere.

A very underappreciated functionality. Over the past few months, a good 30% of my work was done this way - by SSHing from my el cheapo Windows 2-in-1 to my much more powerful Linux desktop, and using Emacs in terminal mode. With terminal set to xterm-256, it looks almost as if it was GUI Emacs, and has almost all the same functionalities available. I'm a remote worker now, but this workflow adds an extra order of magnitude more flexibility to my work day, as I can leave my environment running when I go on an errand, and pick the work up in a long queue, or on a bus.

It's one small thing, but the power of Emacs is really in how all those small little things compose together into a powerful environment you can use from almost everywhere, and on almost everything.

[marrone12]

Emacs has terminal multiplexing and easy remote editing over ssh built in as well.