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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by gcommer on Monday February 15, 2016 @01:30AM (#11101823)
> Do you really use one editor for everything?

Yes, at least whenever possible.

> I think if I spent all day every day in one environment, I would get bored.

The opposite perspective: It's extremely frustrating constantly switching between significantly different environments with different UIs, different hotkeys, subtly different jargon, etc.

Re:Why GNU Emacs? by criddell on Monday February 15, 2016 @10:13AM (#11103735)
> It's extremely frustrating constantly switching

Maybe that's the difference. I'm not a productive multitasker. When I have some Python to work on, that's all I'm doing for the next day or two. I'm not jumping from Word to PyCharm to Vim all day.