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I work a lot in the terminal and so vim/nvim is what I open the most, but the rise of LLMs has actually increased my use of Emacs recently. It fits in a niche of rapid interactive text processing. For example, I just found myself having to sort through a bunch of markdown files in a directory. While a tool like ranger could give dynamic preview, I wanted the preview to work with a todo list so I could mark which files still remain.

In the past, coding up this interaction would be a chore, but Gemini makes quick work of the elisp. After a minute, it's doing exactly what I need: cursor on markdown link, open to right pane, C-c C-c toggles the todo item and closes the pane; C-u C-c C-o opens in obsidian. This functionality can be achieved in any number of ways but Emacs is fantastically well suited for a problem like this.