[MagicPropmaker]

You would think that those zealous power-mods on StackOverflow would have closed this as "not a programming question"

[nicoburns]

I think this question predates that era of stackoverflow. Early stackoverflow was a lot morw tolerant of these kind of questions.

[Anthony-G]

Even though https://vi.stackexchange.com/ has been around for a couple of years, questions about Vi/Vim are still considered on-topic on Stack Overflow. I presume it's because a text editor is so fundamental to programming – though questions using and configuring Emacs, not specific to programming, should be asked on https://emacs.stackexchange.com/

Questions about other programming tools such as IDEs are also on-topic and there are specific tags for such questions.