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I use eww to browse simple web pages when programming, and notmuch-el to read my email. For git I use Magit, and for Slack I use emacs-slack. As you might imagine, that all runs within emacs rather than vim.

In my own case, emacs is running in a GUI frame most of the time, but I often use terminal-displayed frames as well.

> but I often use terminal-displayed frames as well.

Fun trick: if you run your terminal in 256 colors, the resulting terminal frame is nigh-indistinguishable from GUI Emacs for like 95% of the tasks. This works amazing over SSH, and allows me to work on heavy applications with full productivity even on a bus, with el-cheapo netbook and a mobile connection.

(I really need to write a blog post about this.)

> real-life things I need to use

Emacs has a package for that.

the web browser is the only thing for me that is not shell-based... maybe Firefox will come through and create an alternative.