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I converted from many years' of using xemacs to pycharm (which is really a subset of the full if Intellij IDEA) and I'm mostly happy. When I started with xemacs in 2000 or so I made a few minor modes and tweaks but with years things started breaking mysteriously; xemacs was also mostly abandoned compared to GNU emacs but many of my settings were not compatible.

Pycharm gave me overall a better out of the box experience, though at a heavy resource cost (I have 3 branches of my project open and use 1 GB of memory). I've paid maybe 150 EUR to JetBrains for that, but there simply isn't anyone that I could pay 150 EUR to to get a similar experience with emacs.

I'm happy to pay JetBrains even more in yearly renewal costs to make the editor even better.



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