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When Emacs users explain why they use it, it's usually big picture
features: elisp, org-mode, dired. The fact that it's been around
forever and will continue to be around for decades to come. For me
it's the humble M-q, or, in the vernacular, Alt+q or Option+q. This is
the key combination for fill-paragraph. It reshapes a paragraph of
text so that it fits under 80 columns.

This is a marvelously useful feature that is sadly absent from many
other editors. I would probably have switched to Zed already if it had
this, or the ability to extend the editor with custom
buffer-manipulation commands.

If you're writing prose your lines will frequently exceed the width of
the editor. Then you have two choices. You can use word-wrap, which
doesn't play well with indentation for nested content:
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