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I'm not sure emacs will properly evolve as long as RMS is still involved.

Meh. I liked Emacs better when RMS still led the project than afterwards. Fewer changes that annoyed me.

RMS was definitely opinionated, but he was consistent about it, so that once you are familiar with some of his decisions, you could guess how he would decide other things.

What are some examples of recent annoyances you found?

Emacs evolution is really always just a fork away, if someone can build something better than what's there for enough users to care.

XEmacs? I liked it bether than the real thing, it still died

I will say by the time I made the transition, most of the advantages of xemacs had been addressed.

I think I had a better global search and replace method though.

What did its user count get to?

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