The semester of my life that I coded everything in Common Lisp I was using vim to do it. Vim didn't make anything harder and some macros I had at the time and some extensions like vim-slime did everything I needed them to do just fine. Emacs has the whole "Emacs is also a Lisp" thing that gives it a lot of prominence as the editor/IDE of choice for most styles of Lisp, but some of that is just marketing.

Hey same for 25 years of my life, and counting.

I've been working with Lisp for a quarter century now. Always with Vim.

My TXR Lisp comes with Vim support: a pair of syntax files and also a tags generator.