When Emacs users explain why they use it, it’s usually big picture features: elisp, org-mode, dired. The fact that it’s been around forever and will continue to be around for decades to come. For me it’s the humble M-q, or, in the vernacular, Alt+q or Option+q. This is the key combination for fill-paragraph. It reshapes a paragraph of text so that it fits under 80 columns. This is a marvelously useful feature that is sadly absent from many other editors. I would probably have switched to Zed alr...