I always thought that HN's two favourite editors were VI and EMACS...
Vim and Emacs are very probably HN's two favorite editors, not sure why he said that.
I thought it was a joke.
Yes, you are correct! Egg on my face for not noticing the earlier mentions. Unfortunately for the army or Bracket promoters, substance really matters within the technical community. One can't market their way into product adoption with an inferior technical product in this community.