The biggest reason I have to use vi(m) is for messing with servers in production and opening large files. Otherwise I use non-GUI Emacs. Before that I used vim

The biggest reason I have to use vi(m) is for messing with servers in production and opening large files. Otherwise I use non-GUI Emacs. Before that I used vim. My biggest motivation for using terminal-based text editors is that they're faster than GUI editors and easier to switch between CLI tools and the editor. Also, I prefer to do my development within remote servers (that are much beefier than my laptops/desktops). So I just SSH in and do the work. I'm ok with giving up the builtin niceties like jump-to-definition and syntax-aware find-replace. (I could get this working in emacs but it never works in every language or I forget how to set it up when switching environments or something so I end up not using this kind of feature). If you have a motivation then you'll figure out how to make it work eventually. If you don't have these kinds of motivations then I'm not sure why you'd pick terminal editor.