Why limit yourself to only one editor? Learn some emacs basics, learn some vim basics, use both or either as you see fit. Gedit, atom, notepad++, sublime, whatever you are comfortable in will work best for you. Whatever your development cycle best supports is best.

Spacemacs is a nice middle ground and more intuitively usable than either so that is my main editor. Hard to escape emacs when you're working on lisp due to slime. Hard to escape vi when you're setting up new machines.