There's no question, that editors like vim or emacs have a very steep learning curve and it might not payoff for everyone. I'm using vim now for ~15 years and

There's no question, that editors like vim or emacs have a very steep learning curve and it might not payoff for everyone. I'm using vim now for ~15 years and it all started during university on a unix machine with a limited number of options, so I was somehow forced to learn either vi or emacs. I don't know if I would have ever learned vim if I had the options of today. But I also like powerful tools, so perhaps I still would have, and what I like most about these more powerful editors is the ability to optimize them to my prefered workflow. Sometimes you've to fiddle a bit around, which can be very annoying, but at the end I almost always get to a solution I like to work with.