Sure, but I figure there are two classes of folks that need a text editor (not a WYSIWYG editor):
1) People who occasionally want to open/save plain text files: Gedit works just fine.
2) Programmers, who should know one of Emacs or Vim out of hand. I totally get that some folks like using TextMate all day, and that GEdit has some great programmers' features now, but if you know emacs/vim, you'll never be on a machine where you can't get an editor you know.
The 2nd point is why I really want to start learning one of the two. I just can't figure out which one I want. I figure that vim is available on more machines than emacs is, but with emacs I get the bonus of learning a dialect of LISP, too - at least, if I want to customize anything - instead of some arbitrary vim scripting language.
1) People who occasionally want to open/save plain text files: Gedit works just fine.
2) Programmers, who should know one of Emacs or Vim out of hand. I totally get that some folks like using TextMate all day, and that GEdit has some great programmers' features now, but if you know emacs/vim, you'll never be on a machine where you can't get an editor you know.