"Straight to the point: since mid September I've been using Emacs, trying to evaluate whether I was willing to switch from Vim to it. Yup, that's true, me (user of Vim since the day I've started using GNU/Linux 10 years ago, (not so) active maintainer in Debian of vim and related packages, author of some popular Vim extensions and of vim-addon-manager) it's considering switching to Emacs. What is worse is that I've de facto already switched [...] Hence, I've decided to write a small (2-3) series of blog posts on the issue, to future memory. The post you are reading is about why, since a few months ago, I wasn't willing to give Emacs a try, and how I've changed my mind..."