emacs vs vs.net

[William Shieh]

hi,

i'm very new to email and the system i'm using most of the time is win32.
could someone give me some example why emacs is so powerful? from what i
could see is that it takes more key to do a simple copy and paste than
notepad. i know notepad is probably not a good example, however, can anyone
give me a good reason why you use emacs instead of vs.net from ms?

thanks,
gs