[pabenson]

My entire software dev career was using emacs nearly 100% of the time. Originally it was on tops-20 (about 1981) and it was the TECO based emacs. (someone will correct me but I think Stallman was involved in the TECO version at MIT) Then the unix version used an abomination called mlisp. I briefly used EINE on lisp machines. Once Stallman got gnu going in earnest the first thing seemed to be emacs and elisp. I've been retired for a few years now so I don't type at emacs nearly as much. I feel crippled typing this into a text box in the default UI on a chromebook. Once I found control and meta on the keyboard it was all finger macros.

Anyway, I didn't do much customizing and never got used to vi when I was forced to use it. I don't think I liked the modefulness of vi. Yeah, emacs isn't very unix-y, but the unix-y text editor is ed. You kids get offa my lawn.