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/.

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
Experienced vimmers will stay in command mode or input mode most of the time, only rarely switching between the two. Also, ^[ is faster than Esc, one of the few times when I use the modifier keys in vi.