I think it's important to know a terminal text editor if your work involves remote servers. Then once you know one of the good text editor, you may be tempted t

I think it's important to know a terminal text editor if your work involves remote servers. Then once you know one of the good text editor, you may be tempted to use it for other tasks. That's where people get into trouble. The base emacs and vim documentations are actually excellent, the problem is the plugins. Just use an IDE for IDE tasks and a text editor for text editing tasks! I'm not going to start a new project in Intellij just to edit a config file or take notes about something. Why would I want to pollute my minimal emacs config so that I get a flaky IDE? (Of course it's fun to program in a text editor because it's fast and distraction-free, which is why I use them for hobby projects. But for professional work I use professional tools.)