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I think you shouldn't concern yourself too much with the editor. Negative productivity gains are a possibility too. Emacs can be the ultimate productivity trap if you love customizing stuff. Using Emacs often feels like working on a buggy, never-ending project.

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I've been down this road and negative gains are likely. I like tinkering with these things and find it fun, so that's fine with me. But efficiency/productivity we're secondary to exploration.

Unless you have it your heart to become an absolute elisp guru, emacs won't really offer you anything more than vim or any other editor, except plugins that are harder to integrate and configure.

Interesting perspective. I know the thought has sometimes struck me how much time I put on extending my Emacs... but as of late, I have also been shocked by how much time it has saved me. I can now do rather complicated sequences of actions with the press of a key or two. This would not have been as easy to implement without Emacs!

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