Emacs is terrible

It's simply impossible to become as quick in Emacs as one might be in vim. I've been trying, I've really been trying hard to like Emacs, because I want a decent IDE for Lisp. But it's just terrible. The editor is always getting in my way.

I have a new purpose in life. To clone vim in Common Lisp. This isn't reinventing the wheel, because whatever vi-mode they have in Emacs is still corrupted. A new viitor must surface, pure and handsome, with all the Lisp-friendliness of Emacs and all the awesomeness of vi.

I just wanted to get this off my chest, /prog/.

>>53
Shaving keystrokes off a task the speed of which is not bound by typing is pointless.
Good programmers are of course bound by typing. I agree with >>86. I am very proficient in vim, and my programming productivity is still quite limited by the speed at which I can pour my thoughts into the computer. This is why I have lots of little scripts and binds to automate boilerplate and refactoring, and this is why I use vim.

And before you say it, yes, I agree that you should spend more time thinking and designing than actually coding. This time for good developers happens away from the keyboard.

If you don't find that all editors have barriers to your productivity, then you must just be a hugely unproductive programmer.