I still consider myself an emacs user even though I haven't used it for over a decade (or 2?).
For me emacs is from a time where text was king - the productivity to use Emacs for my entire work process - latex docs, coding and debug in multiple languages, reading email, accessing remote systems (gdbserver, scp, ftp, even gopher and the web) from within emacs without using the mouse was astounding.
But as things become more graphical - rich text email was the first, then the web, UML, word/excel etc it became less useful.
Emacs feels like a long lost lover - sweet memories from a distant past, but you can't go back.
For me emacs is from a time where text was king - the productivity to use Emacs for my entire work process - latex docs, coding and debug in multiple languages, reading email, accessing remote systems (gdbserver, scp, ftp, even gopher and the web) from within emacs without using the mouse was astounding.
But as things become more graphical - rich text email was the first, then the web, UML, word/excel etc it became less useful.
Emacs feels like a long lost lover - sweet memories from a distant past, but you can't go back.