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- it's small and fast
- it's portable: runs on Linux and other Unices, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT/2000
- it emulates other editors like GNU Emacs, Brief, DOS edit, Wordstar, Borland IDE
- it can be extended and customised using S-Lang, an extension language similar to C; no wrestling with Emacs Lisp
- it's powerful and feature-rich
- to cap it all, it's easy to use.