I read his blog regularly, and my impression is that cks actually feels more familiar with Emacs, though he uses vi-descendants a little more due to how easy is

I read his blog regularly, and my impression is that cks actually feels more familiar with Emacs, though he uses vi-descendants a little more due to how easy is to deploy Emacs plus all the configuration in all the OSes he runs (times the servers he runs, as they don't have much of a configuration management system).