[bluenose69]

This is a great article, not least because of the tangential comments (e.g. that impact test of bicycle-style tubing was weirdly fascinating). All that's said about Emacs is true. I loved it for decades. And then my hand started cramping up because of the key chords. So I tried vim, and hated it for a few days, disliked it for a few more, and then started to like it. I'd never go back, now. Vim is certainly not as powerful as Emacs, and its macro language is disgusting, but for everyday work it's fine. And I really like Vim's "grammar" approach to describing complex actions, which makes semi-complex tasks into puzzles and not memory exercises. (For really complex tasks, though, there's nothing quite so wonderful as Emacs with elisp ... so this comment may say more about the work I'm doing lately than these two editors.)

[muraiki]

Check out spacemacs, which is a distribution of emacs that adapts the entire interface to use vim's approach. It's incredible. http://spacemacs.org/

[tazjin]

Have you considered using evil-mode?