Yeah, good point, I actually have:

  alias e='TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient -t'
  alias ec='emacsclient -c'
  alias ed='emacs --daemon'

in my .zshrc to do just that but for some reason I use vim anyway, due to it's omnipresence on every server box I go into and I suppose muscle memory of typing vim whatever_file_i_want_to_edit .