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I think that's a completely fair question.

If you're not on desktop Linux, and you don't have years of experience using emacs, I'm not sure there's a great reason to switch to it from Sublime (or any other extensible editor) just on the merits.

I tried emacs many, many times over the years, and always ended up going back to something more modern because I liked them better -- BBEdit, TextMate, Sublime, etc.

(I'm leaving aside the FOSS arguments here, which are reasonable and fair; I just mean workflow/feature reasons.)

All that said, I did end up converting to emacs eventually, about 5 years ago. Why?

OrgMode.

I couldn't find anything else that did what I really wanted in terms of note-taking and to-do tracking, and what I wanted seemed to me to be pretty simple: I wanted to be able to write in plain text, keep notes in multiple files, use outlining, and have some kind elaborate searching tool that would filter through them and show me the lines I'd marked as to-do.

Interleaving the notes with the todos was mandatory for me -- I need context.

Obviously, I could write something simple to do this, but OrgMode is built around this idea from the getgo and works BEAUTIFULLY.

And to the best of my knowledge no such equivalent exists for Sublime, or any other extensible editor.




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