I didn't say a graphical application is inferior. I've no
doubt Kate is a wonderful editor, with a million times more
features than Emacs, which all can be enabled with less
keystrokes.
Except that I've never heard of Kate. Nor do I know anyone
that uses Kate. My expectation was purely based on the myriads
of serious coders I've met over the years. They use different
languages, they work on different projects/jobs. But most of
them use either emacs, or vi (or a look-a-like). Rarely
something else.
Abigail