I use Emacs.

* Nick on #emacs:  <code>UriahEep</code>
* Real Email:  john.n.brow@gmail.com
* John uses GNU Emacs under Windows, Linux and Apple
* GNU Emacs 30.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32 of 2025-08-14

Because I have been subjected to numerous older development environments my desire for full-screen editors caused me at one time to write my own editors.  During my tour of duty as a programmer and analyst I ran across all the usual editor suspects until I dove into Emacs in the late 1990's and really never looked back.  I'm learning elisp at the same pace as Emacs development ;-)

I've found Org-Mode to be extremely useful.  

My function keys (including S-fn and C-fn) are customized.  The latest fad of mine is to assign about 4-6 of my S-fx to find-file my most frequent directories where my current work is.  For example I mapped C-f1 to open my .emacs for editing and inspection.    No toolbar and no menu bar; just the main editing area, the status line and the command line.  For complex mass editing of data I start a macro with f5 (kmacro-start-macro), perform the editing operations once, S-f5 to end the macro (kmacro-end-macro) or f9 to execute the macro (kmacro-end-and-call-macro).  Very useful for those one-off repetitive edits!

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Emacs being slow or resource hungry comes from people who try using Emacs as if it was still vi (or any other standalone text editor) and not as the user-level "operating system" (programmable and multi-purpose) that it is and should be.  Welcome. --AaronHawley
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Emacs is open enough to be just about <b>anything</b> a power user wishes it to be.  I'm glad for that.

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