I find Emacs is great for development and documentation. I tend to use vim only when I need to do a lot of column editing. I was almost 100% vim with a smattering of Emacs. But as time went on I now use Emacs (GUI) much more than vim. I really cannot explain why :)
But I can say git, RCS, etc integration in Emacs is easy and a pleasure to use.
I tried some IDEs a while ago, and they are way to busy for me and required heavy use of the mouse. All I really need for development is tag files, and I was able to find some lisp code that makes Emacs tag handling quite similar to vi/vim.
The only real complaint I have on Emacs is handling of tabs when editing flat text data files. But I get around that by having this:
But I can say git, RCS, etc integration in Emacs is easy and a pleasure to use.
I tried some IDEs a while ago, and they are way to busy for me and required heavy use of the mouse. All I really need for development is tag files, and I was able to find some lisp code that makes Emacs tag handling quite similar to vi/vim.
The only real complaint I have on Emacs is handling of tabs when editing flat text data files. But I get around that by having this:
(fset 'my-expand [?\C-u ?\M-| ?e ?x ?p ?a ?n ?d return])