[kamaal]

Emacs's power largely comes from what and how one would use Elisp. Though Emacs is a great editor in itself. But the true power of Emacs is to use Lisp and its power of Macros to convert Emacs into a AI code writing utility. In other words you write Elisp, and Elisp writes your code. Of course this also extends to the fact that you could eventually use Elisp to automate tasks in the software development workflow.

I think huge disservice has been done to Emacs to use it as an email browsing or as an project management utility. One could use Elisp and do all sorts of curious stuff inside the software development workflow itself.

But if you are using it for editing and for that purpose only, I can absolutely see why vim would be winning. Its just the best lightweight line editor out there.