I have used both Emacs and Vim extensively. Personally, I find Vim groks the idea of text manipulation much better. The key binding scheme/system actually feels

I have used both Emacs and Vim extensively. Personally, I find Vim groks the idea of text manipulation much better. The key binding scheme/system actually feels like something that you can build upon, bindings string together nicely. It's also just much lighter and goes with my preference of using the simplest tool that does the job.