No need to ask other people about that. Just have a weekend learning Emacs + Lisp and make your own opinion. This configuration (https://github.com/susam/emfy h

No need to ask other people about that. Just have a weekend learning Emacs + Lisp and make your own opinion. This configuration (https://github.com/susam/emfy https://github.com/susam/emfy) is a great start. If you like it - use it, if you don't - throw it away. Also, you don't have to fall into a trap of configuring Emacs, well known hackers uses the bare minimum of it and are highly productive. If you're afraid of RSI, you can quickly change default bindings using, for example, Xah-Fly-Keys, or Evil if you're into Vim bindings.