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I think the proper analogy is: if you want to be like Kurt Cobain, get a real guitar instead of playing Rockband on expert all the time.

And yes, I did just compare Eclipse/Studio/etc to Rockband :)

The Cobain analogy best fits TextMate or Notepad++, not Emacs.

The Emacs analogy might hold for SrV or Jeff Beck; exceptionally good, but only a celebrity among a small community of die-hard fans.