[from Editing MACroS]
Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
To those who don't appreciate vi.
A programmable text editor with an entire Lisp system inside it.
To others "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" or "Esc Meta Alt Ctrl Shift".
EMACS entry in the Jargon File
Religous issues - Emacs: The Sacred Editor / Church of Emacs