[neutronicus]

I chose emacs when Textmate stopped getting updated. The joke page registered at textmate2.com redirects to emacs, and a most of the people harassing Allan on his blog a couple years ago were saying they'd switched to emacs.

I think it might just be that emacs doesn't lend itself to screencasts or golf quite as much as vim.

[SoftwareMaven]

I could lower the lid on my macbook so the webcam is pointing at my fingers to show the chording. Hmm, yeah, probably not so helpful.

Emacs has also had a really strong community for over 30 years (perhaps driven somewhat by the higher education roots). As such, I think it had a more firm underpinning than vim did, so more of the tutorials and such already existed.

[skybrian]

Older documentation might actually be a disadvantage. Older tutorials often tell you out-of-date ways to do things, and do it in a not-so-hip way.