[keeptrying]

I use emacs for everything except to quickly jump around a file and edit it. Vim is super fast for this.

Emacs will also help you when your in weird situation because it is so powerful. One very simple example: we had some new machines installed recently but they didn't have our home directories nfs-ed onto them because the San was in a different network. With e-shell In emacs I could copy over my files without even opening a window to my home directories because emacs's tramp mode is built into the shell. It meant that I had autocomplete in my shell while working on a remote machine. Guys were ftping files clumsily over while I just had to use "cp" and the tab key.

[gnosis]

Two other alternatives to emacs in this situation are sshfs, and mc's (midnight commander's) fish protocol.

[keeptrying]

true, but thats the whole point. You rarely need something other than emacs ;)

[gnosis]

Assuming you use emacs in the first place. And not everyone does, or cares to. Especially when there are alternatives with a much easier learning curve.

[keeptrying]

That's like not keeping a multitool at home. I can go on and on about weird problems emacs's has saved me from.

But sure, google a solution, download and compile it, then learn it and fix your problem...

I'll just emacs's ;)