Emacs is really nice because it's essentially a text-mode Lisp machine with lots of small packages that integrate really well with each other.
This contrasts with ncurses based CLI tools, which are little silos. And of course, most GUI applications.
In particular, I'm really fond of Org, Magit, Notmuch and PDF-Tools. I feel they are really nice additions to classic Emacs. Some old packages are really nice too. E.g. AucTeX, Gnus, Calc, Dired, Eshell... Although I feel Eshell and Gnus would really benefit from some refactorings.
And of course the myriad of programming modes.
I feel I don't need much more than Emacs, Firefox and a tiling window manager on top of some underlying OS (preferably Unix).
This contrasts with ncurses based CLI tools, which are little silos. And of course, most GUI applications.
In particular, I'm really fond of Org, Magit, Notmuch and PDF-Tools. I feel they are really nice additions to classic Emacs. Some old packages are really nice too. E.g. AucTeX, Gnus, Calc, Dired, Eshell... Although I feel Eshell and Gnus would really benefit from some refactorings.
And of course the myriad of programming modes.
I feel I don't need much more than Emacs, Firefox and a tiling window manager on top of some underlying OS (preferably Unix).