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/.

>>52,53
You're completely missing the point. A Vim user internalizes the commands in a way that he barely has to think before achieving something. This is possible because of the way Vim's commands were designed - the operator/command/motion setup, and because of their short length. How familiar can you get to a long combination of C-crap? When composing a macro, what matters is how quickly you can get your thoughts to the editor. And in this aspect Emacs is unimpressive.