Vi's learning curve is very steep too. As an emacs user, I sometimes use vi when pairing with a vi colleague. I've tried to learn some more advanced vi functionalities, but I always think the learning curve is not worth leaving emacs behind.
I'm thinking that the issue is rather that when you learn your first editor (emacs or vi), you don't have other good text editors as reference so you swallow the learning curve and keep pushing. When learning the second one, its harder to justify the learning effort.
Re:The One True Text Editor
by projecktzero on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:40AM
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Over the years, I've tried emacs several times. Then I tried VIM, and it clicked with me. I think some people's brains click with VIM and others click with Emacs.
I'm not denouncing emacs, a lot of people I hold in very high regard would commit suicide if they couldn't use it, I'm just saying that emacs is like Richard Stallman: An indisputable genius, but to work with him you have to do things his way, and share his beliefs about the world. Which I don't.