To be honest, learning power editors is mostly just an excuse to fiddle about at work without getting in trouble. The work's still visibly getting done and the

To be honest, learning power editors is mostly just an excuse to fiddle about at work without getting in trouble. The work's still visibly getting done and the bosses don't care if the UI keeps changing so it's a win for me. In my experience; they DO come in handy! Some programming languages or file formats get very arsey about formatting and line endings. Sometimes you need to compare files in hexadecimal. Sometimes you need to mass find/replace. Maybe not everyday but it's good to have these tools on demand with the know-how to operate them. One other BIG benefit of editors like vim and emacs or even notepad++ is that they start immediately, never lag and don't gobble all the ram. It has significantly improved my coding performance now that I can just open it on a whim without having to factor in if it'll slow my system to a crawl with the other current running programs.