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/.

If you're an emacs user and are sitting in front of a keyboard that doesn't look like this or similar:
[C][M][space][M][C]
then you're screwed.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a standard for how many control and alt buttons a keyboard should have or where they should be located.

Also you can't use control or alt as mod-key for your window manager if you're an emacs user.

Thus vim > emacs.