Emacs

Downloaded Emacs after spending the day wondering why people are so darn obsessive about it. First thoughts upon running "apt-get install emacs":
"Wow. This is huge."
When it (finally) downloaded, and I plucked up the courage to run the text editor that had just cost me 15 minutes-ish to download, I was greeted with this horrible little grey monster, which I'm assuming is xemacs. I'd heard (and seen screenshots) of emacs in a terminal, and I'm now wondering how to achieve said terminal-running-emacs (temacs?). More updates to come once I've discovered how.