Emacs is habit forming. I started using emacs as an undergrad in the late 80s, as it was the only way I knew of at the time to have multiple windows open on a

Emacs is habit forming. I started using emacs as an undergrad in the late 80s, as it was the only way I knew of at the time to have multiple windows open on a standard DEC VT-220 terminal. ( I did not know about screen; it was quite new at the time ). I switched to using my UNIX account daily from VMS mainly to get access to this feature that I saw my friends and upperclassmen using. After I got access to an X11 based workstation in the early 90s, I was so used to emacs that I never looked around for alternatives. I can edit simple files in vi, but I don't use it for anything complex. The closest I ever got to using another IDE was in the early 2000s when I was tasked with writing drivers on MacOSX. I looked at using Xcode and quickly returned to emacs (mostly so that I could continue to use my X11 focus-follows-mouse environment, and not be forced to sit at a mac). To this day, I swap my caps-lock and control keys, because that original DEC keyboard had ctrl as the left-most key on the home row. As did the sparcstation keyboards..