"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> OK, so somebody had to ask...

Not really.

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

Lots. But its household name is historical, goes back to the dark ages of
computing. There are dozens of quite decent free text editors nowadays (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors ).

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