For me, one of the reasons of getting into basic vim usage was that it was the only editor I could count on always being available on the machines I was administrating. I learned just enough to be able to edit files with vi when necessary and did the heavy lifting in emacs.
Just a week or so ago, I decided to try to see if I could switch over to vi for all my editing needs. I know people who really know vi are wicked fast at doing stuff in it, none of the additional functionality in emacs is really something that I'm using, and none of the GUI-based editors I've used have really done anything to convince me they're worth the extra hassle. Plus, I know it's available on all platforms I could conceivably need that sort of text editing, so I know my skills will be usable wherever the file might be.
Just a week or so ago, I decided to try to see if I could switch over to vi for all my editing needs. I know people who really know vi are wicked fast at doing stuff in it, none of the additional functionality in emacs is really something that I'm using, and none of the GUI-based editors I've used have really done anything to convince me they're worth the extra hassle. Plus, I know it's available on all platforms I could conceivably need that sort of text editing, so I know my skills will be usable wherever the file might be.