How do you feel about emacs? I am a long time vim user too. I want to hear some testimonies before investing in emacs.

I love Emacs. I'm much happier now that I live in Emacs. I work on a Ruby on Rails application at work and I use Emacs not only to write code but to run tests, use the rails console, use the MySQL console, bundle update, use git, etc.

Let's not forget the amount of customization possible with Emacs Lisp. Editing your editor is a pretty great experience. If you work with any other Lisps, Emacs is the editor to use.

I don't read my email in Emacs like some people, but I do use it for IRC and it works quite well.

I could "evangelize" more, but I've done enough. Give it a shot. Figure out which editor you like more. If you stick with Emacs, be prepared for a weird adjustment period where your hands get really confused and you start mixing up Vim and Emacs key bindings. :)

Couldn't have said it better.

I use both vim or Emacs depending on the task. Evil mode gives the vim key mappings and makes the transition mostly painless.

I'd also recommend using IDO. For me this is one of the best things about Emacs.

I'm just going to go ahead and say that if someone wants to stick with Emacs for all of their editing to learn the traditional Emacs key bindings and not use evil-mode.

The traditional bindings will eff up your pinky though.