I have been an emacs user for about ten years now. When I started programming, I used emacs, then switched to vim. I used vim for a couple of years, and I have

I have been an emacs user for about ten years now. When I started programming, I used emacs, then switched to vim. I used vim for a couple of years, and I have fond memories of it. I think the occasion to switch back to emacs was my attempt to become familiar with Lisp, but I am not entirely sure any more. But eventually I re-discovered emacs and its customizability and extensibility. The fact that you can run a shell, a Lisp/Python/Ruby-REPL or an SQL session in an emacs buffer helped. Also, emacs comes with a builtin Unix-ish shell written in elisp, which is nice on Windows. For quickly editing a file (usually some config file) I still use vi sometimes, although it is becoming less common since I discovered emacs' server mode.