Depends. Do you spend time in console? On remote machines? Vi will be there. It is fast, you can start it right away, and once you get used to modal editing, i

Depends. Do you spend time in console? On remote machines? Vi will be there. It is fast, you can start it right away, and once you get used to modal editing, it is really nice when editing configuration files. With Emacs, your mileage may vary more, it has few killer apps (i.e. Org-mode, maybe magit, friend swears by notmuch for his email), but learning it takes time. Currently, I use * pycharm for python * vs-code for programming in general * vim for editing config files especially on server (but even when I need to edit .git/config, I usually open terminal in my vs-code and etid that with vim :P) * experimenting with notes, blogging and and presentation-building eith emacs org-mode So, for me it was worth it, you might find it too expensive of a time investment :-)