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I don't know about carpel tunnel, but the reason I became interested in Vim/Emacs was due to RSI caused by using a mouse. This was my first job, doing shudders Java-EE (7) web development (no live re-loading, tons of clicking in IDE, manually reloading web-page etc, crappy windows touch-pad etc).

Started learning Rails, drank the Kool-Aid, switched to VIM. I don't use VIM for development at my day-job, mostly just key-bindings in Intellij/VS Code, however, the amount of time saved has been worth the effort, and no RSI (also thankfully am able to use the fantastic track-pad on mac and a trackball for anything else).

Lately I've been feeling the pull to learn Emacs after learning about ORG-Mode and the extensibility of the software... unfortunately, the time investment here is likely to have no real benefit in my (current) work as a Java dev. Sigh, time to browse the who's hiring thread.