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/.

>>31
I'd love to have a keyboard with such a layout. I could finally try out one of those Lisp machine emulators without getting angry at myself for pressing the wrong keys (rubout/backspace confusion being most annoying).
>>29
Just define your own key combinations if you want them to be shorter. Emacs commands are defined in a hierarchical manner. For example, I press C-c (SLIME's commands) and C-x (general Emacs commands) quite often, and C-c s (SLIME selector) even moreso. One could bind those to another key, like F12 and F11 for faster typing.