What I enjoy in the (beta) Emacs 23:
- It finally looks like a native Linux application
- Buffers automatically split horizontally
- It highlights the text selection by default
On Ubuntu, get it from this PPA. On Win, there's a decent EmacsW32 patched build.
Ubuntu apt sources.list:
## emacs elisp ppa
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-elisp/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-elisp/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main