I'm still a novice emacs user, and a kind-of-longtime vim user, heres my "journey"<p>2010~2011: learn vim because I wanted to slack off studying for exams<p>2012: addicted to vim keybindings at this point, tell people 'I can't use other editors without "proper" vim keybindings'<p>2012: also discover tmux, because i wanted the ability to use vim keybindings and copy things in/out of shell<p>2012-2016: dabble with emacs sproadically, put off every time due to my vim keybinding addiction. tried evil mode during this time, and to my limited knowledge of emacs, things like C-u not working (scroll up half a page in vim) tick me off and in different modes the vim keybindings would suddenly disappear which was annoying<p>2016.04: discover spacemacs, try again, things work quite magically. in addition modes like org-mode are working as I expect (no random de-binding of evil-mode), discover new modes like magit and projectile-helm which keep me in (spac)emacs. also supports screen splitting with (:vsp, :sp) which is great.<p>one thing i really like about emacs is i still use the shell (awk/sed/ag/etc) for a lot of tasks, and since i can use the shell inside an emacs buffer, copying-pasting out of them are incredibly easy, replacing my tmux usage.<p>next step for me is to get more proficient in emacs (i hope i can read emails, do simple browsing, etc) and then hopefully setup emacs from scratch for an exercise instead of relying on spacemacs to do everything for me