> You are basically making a commitment to being or becoming a power user. I certainly would not have put up with it if I didn't think it was going to save me a

> You are basically making a commitment to being or becoming a power user. I certainly would not have put up with it if I didn't think it was going to save me a lot of time as a software developer (and it does, everyday). I doubt anyone invests the mental effort to deal with learning emacs nowadays unless this is their goal. > Terminal-based Vim is not like a modern application, yet is more popular than Emacs. I think what happens here is that when someone decides they want to invest the time to learn an advanced editor, most of that subset of people end up choosing vi. Emacs is not approachable enough to appeal to people who don't fall in that group, and vi has more obvious productivity wins for someone who does enter that group, since its focus is on velocity-of-editing rather than extensibility, the latter of which is not even that unique any more (see VSCode/Atom).