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/.

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It's not any more of an obstacle, than having to press escape to get back to command mode and to be honest I never notice it.

but I want to see you doing some complex stuff in just a few keystrokes like you can do in Vim.
Exactly like vim? Or just complex?
If vim, and you want weird regexp stuff, I never bothered to learn it (although it will be in the emacs manual somewhere) and am happy with M-x replace-regexp (before you complain that this is a lot of typing, there is tab completion).

One thing I like about Emacs is that the commands are modified in obvious ways. Take C-k, this kills a line (d$ ?). what if I want to kill a sentence? M-k. A sexp? C-M-k. Transposition is similar C-t = transpose letters, M-t is transpose words and C-M-t is transposing sexps. And emacs' modes allow for mode specific nuances without having to relearn a bunch of commands, e.g. C-j (newline-and-indent) does language specific indentation.

This may not meet your definition of complex (as in take this line do a transformation and then append to each line, or whatever), but it's a lot more useful in day to day life than knowing how to compose some one-offs.