I prefered XEmacs, because it was the only thing that could improve my experience versus Borland Turbo Pascal and C++ IDEs, and it was much better than plain Emacs or VI (vim was years away to materialize).
Nowadays only if I am on bare bones installation, I reach out for emacs or vim, on that order.
Nowadays only if I am on bare bones installation, I reach out for emacs or vim, on that order.