It's a toss up for me if this belongs here or in the Linux topic so I picked one....
Text editors, you know emacs vi and their kin. I know they used to be part of the standard toolkit for all programmers. I have been reading The Pragmatic Programmer and one of their point was "Learn to use one text editor well". I'm not really a programmer but I have aspirations to do some programming, mostly web based. I have played with Emacs and am slowly working my way through the complete built in tutorial. I used vi about 5 years ago when I was actually enrolled in a CS program that I didn't finish.
From my limited, very limited, experience, I don't see the real value of text editors if you are working in a GUI OS. It seems that any old .txt file is as good as the next in Windows. I'm all for mouseless computing but I haven't yet seen that it's terribly convenient to go mouseless in these editors.
Am I just misguided, missing the point, misusing the the app or ar text editors of these types not as useful as they may have once been?