2025-07-24 :

emacs in 2025

Emacs may not be the shiniest text editor these days but its pretty nice to use. you can create some pretty fancy configs, and org mode is definitely the best note taking tool out there.

Maybe its not the best code editor, but for some programming languages like nix or lisp, it can feel better than VSCode. Its also great when you want to be closer to the terminal, rather than abstracting actions into button presses.

If you hypothetically only had a phone to code on, emacs is a great "ide" for terminal only. Although its a little heavy compared to neovim, it also does more than neovim.