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by iLemming 54 days ago
Not ever remotely true. Emacs has one of the best plain and structured text editing ever known to humans. Buffer abstraction alone is a godsend. Indirect buffer editing allows you to edit any piece independently - e.g. I can edit code comments treating them as completely different thing - with different highlighting, fonts, behaviors, etc.

In what editor can you peak&edit folded text without unfolding it? Answer - only Emacs.

Ask someone who needs to write texts in Arabic or Hebrew - Emacs has far, far better RTL support.

Org-mode is just light-years ahead of anything else, nothing even comes close to it.

So, your stupid joke (if you really believe it) is on you, truly.