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Also being available everywhere. I like Text Mate quite a bit, but being single platform makes it harder to recommend.

> Also being available everywhere.

Emacs is everywhere. Windows. Linux. GUIed. And in a terminal where I've SSHed into a remote host.

TextMate? Nope. Sublime text? Nope. Atom? Nope. LightTable? No chance.

These modern GUI-only editors is IMO a major step back considering the Unix-y audience they are targeting: Any decent Unix-editor needs to work on my console. No exceptions.

>Any decent Unix-editor needs to work on my console.

Not everyone feels that way. For example, I used Emacs in text mode for over 15 years, but now that I have tried editing text in a GUI, I do not ever want to go back.

Not everyone feels that way, but enough people feel that way. I rarely use vi or emacs in a terminal these days, but I don't see a good reason to take the retrograde step back to a GUI-only editor.

Also, network access isn't equivalent to console-accessible for quite a few use cases--fixing networking on the target box for starters.

And I don't see anyone teaching how you write an editor with multiple front-ends! People normally start with the front-end.

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