I use Emacs and have been since around 1986. If you’re big on extensibility, Emacs has the elisp programming language built in. Vim used to be more performant than Emacs, but with today’s processor speeds, it is hardly an issue. Emacs can emulate other editors, and as someone else mention Doom Emacs gives you the best of both worlds.

If you are on a Mac, all the text boxes already use Emacs keystrokes. Ctrl-a = Beginning of Line, ctrl-e = End of Line, ctrl-k = Kill to End of Line, ctrl-d = Delete Character, etc.

I would say the same as most it really depends on what you are doing, I program in Lisp a lot so Emacs is a natural fit. Vi/Vim/Neovim are in my opinion Technically better they are smaller and simpler however Emacs is a much bigger and more versatile. I ended up choosing Emacs specifically because it was bigger and more versatile. I do plan on giving Vim a try again sometime to see if it fits my needs better, once learning Vim Keybinds/Motions I find it relatively easy to switch between them, except when it comes to the editor specific apps like Org Mode.

I don’t have the solution.

I just want to say that I try helix since few weeks and it’s nice!

I use Neovim with a custom config, personally - Though I do currently have “look into Doom Emacs” on my personal todo list … So it really depends on what you’re after honestly.

Used to be a huge Emacs nut (ı still like it) but i converted to neovim because its more practical in a modern sense but helix is slowly taking me over. especially due to its speed and still looking very beatiful by default