> Using Emacs and/or Vim is also a test of how much you care, primarily because they're not the default anymore, so anyone who uses them cares enough about their programming environment to use a non-default editor, and one which has a rather higher barrier to entry than most at that.

Depends, at the school I went to (less than five years ago), you start by learning emacs in the first month. A lot of people just stay with emacs for the remaining of the three years, because that's the first thing they learn.