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I've never understood it either. I have really tried to like Emacs (at least 3 times), but it still doesn't make sense to me, even after I wrote and published an Emacs plugin. Even after I started to program in Common Lisp, I still don't understand the need for Emacs and SLIME. I use Vim for text editing, and I feel that it is much simpler than Emacs.