@feoh I was a fan of Vim for years, but I've since switched to emacs. I think that Vi and friends has superior editing capabilities once you understand how a modal editor works. It's quick to make edits and I find that I spend a lot less time wrestling the editor to get the text I want.

That said, Emacs, is the superior piece of software in my opinion. In the ~10 years of exclusive Vim use I never really came to fully understand the varied syntaxes used for directives in a .vimrc file or how to write Vimscript. Maybe if I'd made a concerted effort it'd be different, but to a certain extent I felt that I was always cargo-culting. Emacs is way more consistent and cohesive, because everything is Elisp. To do configuration, you only need to know a small part of Elisp (if you don't use the customization framework) and learning to use it is pretty easy to pick up - especially if you have some experience in another Lisp. I've written multiple helper functions in Elisp to make my work easier and I wouldn't even know where to start with Vi. Emacs also has Evil mode, which means I get modal editing and basically all the functionality of Vim that I want. I now use vi for editing text and Emacs keybindings/functions for anything it doesn't cover and it's very pleasant.

If you were to start with Emacs take some time to learn about common extension packages. Ones I can't live without: dtrt-indent (deduces tabwidth from the open file), Smex (makes the interface way more discoverable), Dired (good for bulk file operations), and of course Evil.