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Try Spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
Being a Vim user of 4+ years, and having made 2 previous attempts at switching to Emacs, this is the setup that finally made me immediately productive enough to get work done. Been using this as my primary environment for more than a month now.
For me, I was always annoyed with how tedious it was to edit things. i.e, The gap between what I think vs what I have to do in the editor to get it done. This constant annoyance was what drove me to spend time and energy into learning it. I believe that if you don't care about it, you won't really benefit out of it. Because the whole point of switching to Vim/Emacs is to minimise the gap between what you think and how you do it.
Let me give you an example. You'll be thinking, "I need to change all the arguments to a function." In other editors, you'll press the arrow keys until you get to one end, press backspace key multiple times until you get to the other end. In Vim, I'd do "ci(" which means "change everything inside (" - which is pretty much how I think about what I need to do. A similar but more common example is changing text inside quotes. Again, that'd be 'ci"'.
Not everyone feels the annoyance about this and if you don'tt, hats totally fine. Learning something just because its cool is never worth it. Learn it if you really care about it.
Also read this post by Yehuda Katz about how he started for some ideas. http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convi...