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by TeMPOraL 4259 days ago
Aside from all the other reasons other people already listed, there is a one fundamental benefit. Emacs is not just an editor, it's a Lisp runtime with text-editing functionality bolted on top. Lisp is natural for Emacs at all levels of complexity - from the fact that it's easy to work with Lisp code using Lisp to the Emacs community, composed in a big part of Lispers. Lisp just fits Emacs.