Vim is really nice. It's my standard sw for almost everything. Especially when i got the emacs pinky ache/disease again after abusing it on my laptop where i can't reconfigure the ctrl-button to be on caps-lock. If you're interested in doing emacs and stuff like lisp with it, i suggest you also learn dvorak- (or some other "effiency"-oriented) keyboard config with it from the start, because starting emacs is hard anyways so you just give your learning curve a little more starting offset for a combined exponential payoff in work-efficiency. I bought stickers for dvorak e. g. but now i don't need them anymore.

Another pro on vim is that i so far encountered no distro where it isn't installed out of the box. For emacs this makes no sense because especially when you (re) start with it (e. g. on a new computer) you spend more time configuring it than actually using it.