https://medium.com/@PhilippMiletic/editor-s-c3ba97f31ca1

So what is really driving me crazy is that I am stuck between emacs and vim. I have both of them installed and whenever I stick with one for a week, I feel like I miss the other one. For Example I use emacs for a week, great, enjoy using it, but I kinda miss vim. So eight day I open Vim and feel like wow, I see all the things I like it, and try, stick with it for a week and thing repeats it self, and after few days I swing back to emacs. And it is irritating because I cannot learn both things at the same time.

I was using vim for 3 years, liked it (except viml and configuring) a lot, and I like to throw myself out of the comfort zone so I tried Emacs because I read a lot about it. And I used it for 4 months, and now I switch between these two every one in a while. Long term Emacs seem like much better investment, it is amazing platform actually, where plugins feel like whole environments, while Vim is so much better for editing text and my flow was pretty good with iTerm2+zsh+neovim, but plugins are just like that plugins, nothing special about them (where in Emacs land you have magit, ENSIME, CIDER, CEDET). And I dipped my toes into Lisp, so Emacs is built for that. But when I want to go write some C, and get things done I go back to neovim and do it. So I am aware of good and bad sides of both editors, neither is better, philosophies behind them are different.

What are the things that made you decide and pull the trigger of one of those?

I am really picky about my tools, and people say I am config freak, but I just like to tweak things. I enjoy spending my free time by tweaking things that make no to little difference when you look at them by themselves, but after I look at bigger picture I can see I am learning and having fun.