Emacs but not vim I think it s a pretty questionable choice to include emacs especially instead of vim Look at the statistics from Debian s Popularity Contest to see why I think that If someone can show me some data that suggest emacs is more widely used than vim I ll gladly let it go However I think including a text editor here is arbitrary anyway since managing windows meaning individual applications in the traditional sense isn t an editor s job It would make more sense to me to include a terminal multiplexor like screen or tmux as opposed to an editor