I think it's unfair to compare vi(m) and emacs, they're not built for the same purposes. #emacs is a full productivity suite with addons and parts for every imaginable thing in the universe. it's the CLI version of an 'everything app', it'll just as happily help you with spreadsheets or email or your calendar or align the planets in whatever specific configuration as part of your dark voodoo magic incantation workflows or whatever. and #vim and #nano are also not the same, for the same reasons