[jevgeni]

My progression was Vim -> Emacs -> Sublime. Funnily enough, on systems with no Sublime I still tend to use Vim.

It took me about a month of consciously making myself work in Emacs to get a hang of it. But I don't use any major features, like macros.

Emacs is awesome for Python indenting, for example, but when I switched to a less elaborate indenting convention, I kind of just drifted away from Emacs.

[tuhdo]

You should see my other answer to see what Emacs is capable of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8639804

Definitely not less than Sublime.

[jevgeni]

Just noticed your comment there. And seriously impressive material there.

And I've settled with Sublime not because I think it's absolutely superior to Emacs. But mostly because, I've noticed, that I don't use the advanced features that often, and when I do, I always have to look them up in a cheat sheet or my O'Reilly book on Emacs. And Sublime is a bit jiffier on a Mac, then XEmacs or AquaEmacs.