Emacs was basically the first editor that would balance (blink matching) parentheses by default. I started using it when it was recommended for an introductory undergraduate course in LISP at MIT. You either used Emacs or you flunked the course. I suspect it still has the most productive programming engine of any editor, and the most custom-file modes. Emacs is like Apple computers. People may earn their livings programming other computers but they program Macs (and e-Macs) because it's FUN.
I use gnumacs reprogrammed to be Gosling's Emacs (James Gosling wrote the first emacs for UNIX in ~1986). I have a mode file called "gosmacs.el" which uses most of the same key bindings as Gosling's emacs which is a 1970's / early 1980's emacs. Stallman keeps pissing people off by changing the keybindings but I'm not subject to his flavor-of-the-month whims in this regard.
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Emacs was basically the first editor that would balance (blink matching) parentheses by default. I started using it when it was recommended for an introductory undergraduate course in LISP at MIT. You either used Emacs or you flunked the course. I suspect it still has the most productive programming engine of any editor, and the most custom-file modes. Emacs is like Apple computers. People may earn their livings programming other computers but they program Macs (and e-Macs) because it's FUN.
I use gnumacs reprogrammed to be Gosling's Emacs (James Gosling wrote the first emacs for UNIX in ~1986). I have a mode file called "gosmacs.el" which uses most of the same key bindings as Gosling's emacs which is a 1970's / early 1980's emacs. Stallman keeps pissing people off by changing the keybindings but I'm not subject to his flavor-of-the-month whims in this regard.