I learned both Emacs and Vim (VIM for its speed, and emacs for its versatility). As a commenter pointed out, it’s all about freeing the mind. When you’re sure t

I learned both Emacs and Vim (VIM for its speed, and emacs for its versatility). As a commenter pointed out, it’s all about freeing the mind. When you’re sure that an action is going to get a specific result, you can just do it and not think about doing it. While I can do most basic actions in whatever editor, there are workflows that are only possible in Vim/Emacs. One example is switching effortlessly between writing code, testing it, fixing it, managing the files, versionning them. Not a speed boost, but a flow boost.