> Emacs is a bit easier to use for long typing sessions, but DrRacket indents better.
May be Racket has a very small mindshare when it comes to Emacs users, otherwise someone would have written a better indentation mode by now.
> I was briefly very hardcore into Vim, but I eventually realized that its lack of proper plugin control meant major headache was in store for me down the road as I grew out my installation.
I am not sure what you mean by proper plugin control, but pathogen and vundle have existed for some time now. I use terminal vim running under screen with a repl open in another screen window and some vim plumbing to send text to the repl for my racket experimentation.
May be Racket has a very small mindshare when it comes to Emacs users, otherwise someone would have written a better indentation mode by now.
> I was briefly very hardcore into Vim, but I eventually realized that its lack of proper plugin control meant major headache was in store for me down the road as I grew out my installation.
I am not sure what you mean by proper plugin control, but pathogen and vundle have existed for some time now. I use terminal vim running under screen with a repl open in another screen window and some vim plumbing to send text to the repl for my racket experimentation.