I think the down vote is that we see your comment as: "vim & emacs are glorified notepads". At least that is what went thru my head. But they are so much more than a way to type text, with emacs (which I don't grok) I manage my emails archive via gnus/mu/Maildir. Or do "Literal DevOps", check this out for something that still blows my mind with awesomeness: http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html