[BrianHV]

I've had the same feeling. When I learned about org mode, I actually spent a week using emacs exclusively trying to get used to it and failed.

But whenever I feel this way I wonder why these sorts of applications don't exist for vim. I don't know many people who would argue that vimscript is as good a language as lisp is, but isn't it complete enough to do stuff like this? Or you could use python to do it.

Is it a cultural thing? Is there some infrastructure support in emacs that makes applications much easier to write?

[aerique]

Armchair psychology: I think vi users have a more "Unix mindset" as in a program should do one thing and do it well. While Emacs users want to do everything in Emacs (browse the net, walk directories, use shells, edit movies, etc. etc.)

The generalisations I just made are so broad as to be useless though :-)