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by snapdaddy 1118 days ago
I will treat your comment as serious and explain why I personally use emacs.

The thing I love most about emacs is that it is joyously consistent. The same key combination to jump ahead by a word works everywhere, such as when you're opening files or navigating directories. This consistency means that I am often very efficient trying new packages that I have never used.

Maybe you've never seen someone use emacs in anger? If so, check out this video of Steve Yegge doing some stuff in Emacs: https://youtu.be/lkIicfzPBys?t=142

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please point me towards literally _any_ text editor that dynamically remaps shortcuts on you.