org-mode

My journey: nvi (old unix vi clone) -> vim -> neovim -> emacs

I've tried emacs for a bit but after using Helix for quite some time, I just can't get used to the latency of Emacs.

Helix's commands are immediate (except they call to the LSP server, but it's still almost like it). I often felt some jank with Emacs, especially starting up.

And I used emacsclient too.

That's a nice feature!

Learning emacs now, because I like elisp, I need a change and learning new stuff is fun.

I switched to Emacs in 1995 because I worked at a place that had a huge Emacs base. 1000s of devs, a huge company wide package archive.

I used viper mode for a long time. While using vi in a terminal for small things.

Aside from being able to cycle either direction through buffers in Vim, I never liked Vim, vimscript or the developer.

I briefly tried vim in 2010.
It just didn't compare to Emacs. I started using Evil when it came out. The last couple of years I turned off Evil and eventually settled into Meow mode.

Whatever you need in Emacs is just a bit of code away.

Perl and Lisp and LaTeX and HTML all continued to push me into Emacs, which eventually became my everything editor. Except for random sysadmin tasks where I still often use vi out of old habit.

now, I don't want to miss `org-mode`, babel and
emacs calc anymore

For vi, I would highly recommend Lamb's Learning the vi Editor, 5th edition.

So as a sysadmin fixing/building stuff i optimised for "anywhere anytime."

Now it's vi/vim with no plugins, as for the kernel/driver stuff I do the plugins get in the way, and vscode/neovim/etc end up making the "minimum productive consistent setup across devices' increasingly complicated and unstable.