Just got to say this to all you netbeaners, eclipsers etc out there.
Today i finally groked what makes Emacs so good. I havent groked Emacs itself yet but all the IDEs i have tried have disappointed, they are big, slow and ugly and hard to navigate easily and there is a lot fo unnecessary clutter which you sometimes can and sometimes cannot take away.
Emacs has a bit of a barrier of entry but as soon as you learn some keyboard-kung-fu it will make you very productive.
Jump between buffers, run an interpreter, search your code, etc.
So powerful and so elegant. Emacs captures the essence of good software.
http://mark.nirv.net/post/6694167/guilty-pleasures