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by b5n 1438 days ago
> Emacs are only for text, obviously.

I don't know if I missed something in your post, but this couldn't be further from the truth. It's cliche to refer to emacs as it's own OS, and it is not uncommon for users to do all of their computing inside of emacs - web browsing, email, note taking, documentation, writing, version control, terminal, ide, window manager, remote admin, etc. Based on your criteria emacs seems like a perfect fit, I encourage you take take a deeper look at emacs if you're interested.

https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

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There are Emacs packages that themselves have the qualities listed here. GNU Hyperbole, org-mode, calc, org-roam/denote, evil are some examples.
Yeah its been described as a virtual lisp machine as well. I use emacs for everything personally, aside from Firefox (which I launch within emacs/exwm). Its hard to go back once you get used to consistent keybindings and commands across your OS. I sure wish RSS was more popular, too. I wouldnt even really need Firefox if that were the case.