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> From: "Artur Hefczyc" <wislaj23@wp.pl>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 19:41:12 +0200
> 
> So my question is: Could you please send me the most
> important reason for you why you use emacs instead of
> other modern IDEs?

The single most important reason is that Emacs is available on every
imaginable platform out there, so it is the last IDE you will ever
need to learn.

And then, of course, there are all that enormous amount of features
and packages that let you do almost anything in the same familiar
environment.