I agree. One of the best coders I ever met had only used Visual Studio for the past 20 years. He knew the guts of Windows and X86 hardware unlike anyone else I've ever met and he is SORELY missed (retired last year) where I work even we've mostly moved over to Linux based apps. He was also pretty decent at the Linux kernel, but still edited code in his beloved Visual Studio even then :) . So no, vim and emacs do not make you a great programmer.