Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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?

  Can notepad automatically color your code? Can it autoindent your code?
Can you perform a search&replace using a regexp? Can you hex-edit a binary
file (with a typical hex editor layout)? Can you convert between DOS and
UNIX newlines?

  Can you configure a key combination to scroll the view one line at a
time while keeping the cursor visually in place, and another key
combination to scroll the view one line at a time while keeping the
cursor in its current line in the text? Can you configure a key combination
to insert a binary file at the cursor position uuencoded?

  Does notepad support versioning (eg. with git or svn)?

  How many operating systems has notepad been ported to?

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