[hollerith]

>makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs.

Your poll has more selection bias than the SO survey: your poll was seen only by HNers who decided to read comments on a story with "Emacs" in the title.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Correct, but given the lingering sense of the two editors being polar opposites, left behind from centuries-past flame wars of the internets, both vim and emacs users are likely to come forward, just to see what the fuss is about.