ErgoEmacs is a fantastic text editor.
You download it, and use it for your day job and be productive in the first day.
ErgoEmacs is as easy to use as Notepad, If you are familiar with Microsoft Notepad, you can be productive with it the minute you download it. It is as easy to use as Notepad, Notepad++, BBEdit, Textmate, and easier than IDEs such as Visual Studio, XCode, Eclispe, NetBeans.
ErgoEmacs is a modernized version of emacs. It improves emacs's difficult keyboard shortcuts, menus, outdated terminologies, and with many more added packages.
For a list of features, see: ErgoEmacs Features.
For Windows: ErgoEmacs 1.7 Setup.exe.
For Mac OS X and Linux, you need a emacs 23 installation, then install the ErgoEmacs Elisp Package that will make your emacs behave as ErgoEmacs. Download here: ergoemacs_1_7_1.zip.
See also: Version 1.7 Release Notes.
Emacs has a lot uses more than just simple text editing. To learn advanced features, tricks, customizations, see: Xah's Emacs Tutorial.
If you have any problem using ErgoEmacs, please post it to http://groups.google.com/group/ergoemacs. We'll try to help you.
This project is primarily developed by Xah Lee and David Capello , with help, suggestions, add-on packages, from many other people. And, we like to thank the GNU Emacs people, without which this project is impossible.
We'd also like to thank many people who wrote alternative emacs distributions, in particular the XEmacs, EmacsW32, Aquamacs Emacs, Carbon Emacs. These people helped to keep emacs alive.
For developers, please visit our developer site: http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/.