OT: Editors

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 8/3/12, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> An editor I wrote years ago had the rendering code in a separate thread from
> user input. You never had to wait to type in commands, the rendering would
> catch up when it could.

I bet every programmer eventually tries to implement their own editor,
even if just for fun. So how come you didn't stick with your own
editor? I guess someone recommended Emacs and that was it, huh? :)