OK, so somebody had to ask...

What is it, exactly, that makes Emacs so fantastic? What does it 
actually *do* beyond being a text editor?

(I mean, aside from the obvious fact that "Emacs" is actually just a 
Lisp interpretter that defaults to running a text editor application 
written in Lisp...)

Presumably there is a way of making Emacs read the content of a text 
file, use the various keys on the keyboard to edit that text, and save 
the result. But hey, Notepad can do that too! So what is it that Emacs 
does that's so awesom? What can it do that Notepad can't?

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