"perfect" will vary from person to person, and depending on the job to be done. not all "editing code" is equal.
Emacs can be found all over the proposed spectrum here, because there's so many people have made it their perfect editor for their current circumstances, and shared the tweaks that made it so for them.
I'm sure the other "favorite editors" have similar, i'm just not speaking of them because I'm ignorant of how often they nail "perfect", myself.
As usual the "paradox" is in how we look at it, not the cold realities.
> "perfect" will vary from person to person, and depending on the job to be done.
That actually isn’t relevant here. This is a thought experiment about which heuristic should be used to determine the perfect editor. How to think about what the perfect editor even is.
Maybe you grip your knife one way and I another, but we may both agree that the perfect knife is the one that gets our cutting done the most quickly, or with the most precision, etc
Emacs can be found all over the proposed spectrum here, because there's so many people have made it their perfect editor for their current circumstances, and shared the tweaks that made it so for them.
I'm sure the other "favorite editors" have similar, i'm just not speaking of them because I'm ignorant of how often they nail "perfect", myself.
As usual the "paradox" is in how we look at it, not the cold realities.