> Forget about vim and emacs, those were for times when people were coding over SSH. If you're struggling and have the suspicion that it might not be worth it

> Forget about vim and emacs, those were for times when people were coding over SSH. If you're struggling and have the suspicion that it might not be worth it for you in the end, sure. For everyone else, don't be afraid to learn how to be more effective by using a more expressive feature set for editing. I think your advice is potentially harmful. Just because you didn't end up learning this doesn't mean it's useless to other people. It's quite possible that you're just not learning effectively enough and you're not grasping the tools correctly. There's no shame in that, but to then advise people to not learn it only because you couldn't is completely pointless.