I'm currently in the process of moving from vim to emacs, and I've noticed that the only things from vim I really need are the modal editing and the basic keybindings - everything else, like the plugins I've come to love, are more or less interchangable, and from what I've seen, more than plentiful in emacs-land. I think comparing emacs to vim as "editors" creates a false dichotomy, one that has kept me from trying emacs for too long.