Bryan Berry has posted the notes from a presentation on Emacs that he gave to some of his colleagues. The notes are basically a set of bullet points on Berry’s thoughts about Emacs.
They’re definitely worth reading if only to get another developer’s perspective. I’m inclined to disagree with his assertion that Emacs is probably not better than your current editor because, among other things, what does that even mean? I consider “best editor” to mean the one that enables you to be the most efficient and I know from experience that Emacs makes me more efficient. Others may have a different definition or find that some other editor makes them more efficient.
Making you more efficient is one of the things that Berry says Emacs does. I agree completely that Emacs has a high learning curve but that the ROI on the time spent is quite high. Another of his assertions with which I agree is that Emacs has been enjoying a Renaissance of late and has gotten dramatically better in the last 5 years.
You probably won’t learn anything you didn’t already know—unless you’re not a user or a rank beginner—but I found them interesting and worth the short amount of time to read the 3 pages.