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The most flexible programmable editor is probably Acme though.

I've seen implementations of ACME's plumber as Emacs modes, I haven't seen implementations of Emacs in ACME.

ACME's plumber is very cool, and allows very easy customization of how some things work. Much easier than these things typically are in Emacs. But this behavior is implementable in Emacs (I wish it were standard), and lots of things that are hard-coded in ACME are fully customizable in Emacs.

Sure, Acme lacks - well: intentionally does not have - theming, font changing etc., although some modifications (like Acme2k) exist which change that. Acme is probably more about "getting things done" than about "looking good" ... :-) (that sounds harsher than intended - I like Emacs for its flexibility and it was my Usenet reader until last month).

Interestingly, the first Emacs "plumber" which I have found after you wrote it literally uses Acme's plumber: https://github.com/alcah/sink.el

I wish Emacs had 9P support though.

So it's not the most flexible then.

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