I switched the other way (vim to emacs), and whilst there are some annoyances and it's not quite as "pure", I'd never go back. I'm surprised that an emacs user

I switched the other way (vim to emacs), and whilst there are some annoyances and it's not quite as "pure", I'd never go back. I'm surprised that an emacs user says that macros in vim are "awesome" - they're there and very straightforward to use in Emacs, too.