Yeah maybe a bit, but to me full Stallmanesque would be avoiding proprietary software even when the free alternative is non-existent or significantly less functional. That is not the situation with text editors, unless I am missing something big that Sublime Text can uniquely do.
Emacs can do all that. I wouldn't be surprised if Vim could too... The point about these two editors is that no matter what feature shows up in an editor, both of them could implement it.
Emacs lets you easily write plugins in python? It's been a while since I used it, but I remember an awful lot of parens any time I wanted to customize something.
Well, the lisp factor is obviously an issue, for people who aren't interested in learning another language, but that's knowledge friction.
It's not particularly difficult to learn Lisp, it needs a nice syntax highlighter to dim away all the parens, but really, it's a very simple language. I'm sure you could write some bad-ass shit if you gave it a little attention.
There are python -> emacslisp bindings available, but I can't speak to that, regarding completeness / stability etc. Frankly I wouldn't suggest anyone waste their time doing that.
But really with such a HUGE resource of functions / libraries, (and some of the cooler features of Lisp, I mean have you seen the loop macro!?) ... it's a bit of a waste to pass it up over its "(( big ears ))"
