Every time I tried to use Emacs, instead of editing text, I found myself playing the text adventure game that came bundled with it. It never really seemed like a serious text editor to me due to all of the extra bloat which provides functionality that I already have available to me in my operating system.

I use vi or Vim. I originally learnt to use vi because it would be preinstalled on any Unix machine. Now I'm so accustomed to using it that any other editor I try or am forced to use, feels painfully slow to navigate and edit text.