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> From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 17:38:15 +1000
> Cc: colinetnathan98@gmail.com,
>  Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>,
>  Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> To an extent, the editing aspects of Emacs are not particularly
> interesting and most of the really great editing features of Emacs
> have been incorporated into other editors anyway

I would disagree, at least to some extent.  It is true that many Emacs
features are available today elsewhere, but some surprisingly still
aren't.  For example, what about transposing words or lines with one
or 2 keystrokes?