I'm a vim (loser[1]) and terminal (power) user for 7+ years.
Two things comes to my mind when we talk about emacs and other editors.
The Terminal! In particular iterm.app
Basically with iterm and vim, I'm on osx close to a i3 on linux.
Vim works perfectly inside a terminal (no need to remap meta).
We have terminals on android, ipad etc...
I love working in a terminal because... well, is where I spend most of the time. Running ruby, compiling go, js, logging on a server, running a script, tailing logs...
[1] loser because my vim is "modern" so with mouse, arrows and so on...
It's not quite the same but since Emacs is primarily an OS it has window managements build in, so by running it fullscreen and making a bunch of horizontal and vertical splits you get pretty close to i3[1] as well.
The only problem is terminals. You can run them inside of Emacs, but there's always issues. You can run eshell[2] which is wonderful. Myself, I prefer to use terminals outside of Emacs.
Two things comes to my mind when we talk about emacs and other editors.
The Terminal! In particular iterm.app
Basically with iterm and vim, I'm on osx close to a i3 on linux.
Vim works perfectly inside a terminal (no need to remap meta). We have terminals on android, ipad etc...
I love working in a terminal because... well, is where I spend most of the time. Running ruby, compiling go, js, logging on a server, running a script, tailing logs...
[1] loser because my vim is "modern" so with mouse, arrows and so on...