Smooth scrolling alone makes me often opt for not-Emacs (running plain Emacs in OS X). I've tried several solutions to solve this from googling, never found anything that was effective.
As a mouse user as well, sometimes selecting text with my mouse/positioning with mouse works fast, and I've always found text editors to not really be too great at letting me click accurately between characters.
Also, if you get into more IDE-y features, not having your "popup"s be overlayed colored text is usually a win for aesthetics. And hey, if I'm staring at something 8 hours a day, having it be pretty is nice right?
As a mouse user as well, sometimes selecting text with my mouse/positioning with mouse works fast, and I've always found text editors to not really be too great at letting me click accurately between characters.
Also, if you get into more IDE-y features, not having your "popup"s be overlayed colored text is usually a win for aesthetics. And hey, if I'm staring at something 8 hours a day, having it be pretty is nice right?