Should I use EMACS?

EMACS has been favourably mentioned in recent posts to various HWG lists.
I'm afraid I know nothing of it, but it seems to be highly recommended by
it's users.

So now I'm wondering why it has such a fanatical following. Can somebody who
uses it to write HTML documents tell me something about it and explain why
they think it's so good?

Specifically, can somebody give a solid reason for me to switch from MS Word
(7) to EMACS? If it's so good, what will it offer me that Word doesn't?

There is a Windows 95 port of EMACS, right? (I understand that some of you
are very anti-MS Windows, but please humour me and assume that I can't
switch to UNIX because my place of work is committed to Windows.)


David Meadows
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