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/.

>>37
Say I have a file with 300 similarly separated sections of 5 lines each. Might be a code file. I want to modify characters 3-10 in each line in each section in the same way, and I want to add some text after each line:


qa
/<separator>
h2l
C-v
4h6l
c<modifications> (or maybe :s<modifications, in which case ditch the following escape)
<Escape>
q
299@a

Might seem like a lot of commands, but it's actually done very quickly.

Also, what >>38 said is very true. Any vimmer will confirm this. And in the rare event that I change modes, I'll do it with a quick jj, which I binded to <Esc>.