I’ve been using Emacs for almost 10 years and I have only good things to say about it.

Why am i so happy about Emacs?

Emacs is a modular ecosystem

• I can customize everything.
• It has a huge selection of packages.
• Emacs is a platform to create my own thing.

Org mode is the best organizer that I have seen

• Org mode helps me to keep notes, maintain TODO lists, plan projects and author documents.
• I’ve been using Org mode at work and home and it has been very helpfull.
• I can make nice presentations with org-reveal.

Magit is the best git integration that I have seen

• Hunk operations in Magit are like nothing else.

Wonderfull Docker integration

• I use Emacs to run Docker containers at work.

Tramp

• I can seamlessly edit files on remote servers via SSH or FTP.
• I think of tramp as if I have mounted the remote server on my machine using sshfs. It uses binaries from my own machine.
• Edit local files with su/sudo.
• I can use external binaries while coding on a remote machine without installing my dev environment there.

Literate DevOps

• I can connect and edit files remotely.
• I can use org-babel to write documentation with bits of code in it. I can execute the code while I read/write it (literate programming).
• I can bookmark directories across multihopped ssh connections.
• I can easily return to saved locations on remote machines.
• Using the following in my OrgMode file I can easily install my favorite packages on my Linux machines at home:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
sudo yay rust haskell go
#+END_SRC

Dired

• I can edit a directory listing like a regular text file. Dired will update the file system to produce the directory listing that I want.
• Dired-sidebar and sunrise-commander.

Colorful text editor

• Emacs has very beautifull color themes. I really like the colorization of search results.

Learning Emacs Lisp

• I’m learning Emacs Lisp because I write helper functions for my Emacs setup.
• Emacs Lisp is a cousin to other lisps like Clojure and Racket. By learning it I’m also learning a technology that has a real monetary value.

Helm

• Mind blowing.

Ace Jump

• I can happily jump around without using the mouse.
• Supports mouse-free development.
• Wonderfull.

Htmlize

• I can export the current buffer as an html document with the current syntax highlighting as inline styles.
• It is like taking a screenshot except that I can still copy and paste from it.

ZTree

• Gorgeous.

WGrep

• Editable grep buffer using ag and wgrep.
• I can edit a grep buffer and apply those changes to the files being grepped.

Eshell

• Amazing.

Occur mode

• Grep on steroids for my text editor.

Support for multiple cursors

• Why have just one?

Indirect buffers (clone-indirect-buffer)

• I can edit the same buffer with multiple modes when I combine indirect buffer with narrowing.
• Each cloned buffer has a different mark ring, narrowing and other buffer properties.

Emacs is a timeless piece of software and irreplaceable