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I think I need to learn emacs. I'm not sure I want to even learn emacs. But everytime I see a video of someone using emacs I find myself wondering "what the hell IS this?"

Is this how people feel when they see someone using vim? (I use vim.)

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I'm new to emacs, and I used to use vim in the past. I think emacs is much harder to learn compared to vim, because you really need to learn emacs lisp to make things functional while you don't really need to learn vim script to use vim. It's a joy and pain to use emacs.

You don't need to learn elisp to learn emacs. I've been using emacs since 1990, 23 years now, and haven't done anything in elisp. Mostly you can copy and paste configuration information so it's really not necessary to learn it.

I learned emacs after using vi for a short time, about a year and have never looked back. Nothing about vi/vim impresses me, emacs can pretty much do anything vi/vim can do.

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