For me XEmacs was the go-to environment while I didn't had access to Borland like IDEs on UNIX environments.
Nowadays XEmacs seems to have died, I have plenty of IDEs to choose from for my favourite languages, even on GNU/Linux and Emacs seems to still lack some of the nice features of XEmacs.
As for VIM, I learned VI on Xenix, but never could bother to actually use it more than for profile files, or as the go-to editor over telnet/ssh sessions when nothing else was installed by default.
I assume many on the IDE camp might share a similar experience.
Nowadays XEmacs seems to have died, I have plenty of IDEs to choose from for my favourite languages, even on GNU/Linux and Emacs seems to still lack some of the nice features of XEmacs.
As for VIM, I learned VI on Xenix, but never could bother to actually use it more than for profile files, or as the go-to editor over telnet/ssh sessions when nothing else was installed by default.
I assume many on the IDE camp might share a similar experience.