About a month ago I heard about evil-mode in emacs and gave it a shot. It will allow you to by-pass much of the 'boilerplate' learning curve (how to move around inside and between buffers and edit, etc) so you can just focus on the cool aspects of emacs that vi doesn't do as well. Spent the first week or so setting emacs up more or less with the same features and shortcuts I got used to in my customized vim environment and haven't looked back. Have your cake and eat it too. :)