Brasten/Rands: RE: Emacs

I was thinking of Emacs the whole time I was reading this essay. As a PHP developer, I'm the only member of my team who uses Emacs. Adobe GoLive is the standard here. I spend a good half-hour configuring Emacs as a powerful webdev ide on every machine I touch following the instructions here: http://www.dzr-web.com/people/darren/projects/emacs-webdev/

I spend this time because Emacs is comfortable to me, and it says POWER to me. But I worry sometimes that the way I use Emacs IS a sign of cruft. I'm a webdev schmuck, not a c/java/lisp developer, and am I sacrificing the power of a modern editor for the sake of comfort?

These are the questions that keep me up at night.