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/.

>>76
You would only need to do it in the cases where emacs doesn't actually do it, it often already can. Extensibility is useful, because no one tool can do everything, or even always do it in the way you want. It's the same argument for metaprogramming, which you are probably also against.

>>76
You can extend that argument to apply to anything that has extensions(including vim) "My tool does X, I don't care if your tool can be extended to do X"

also relevant is this image from Xach, http://www.xach.com/img/lisp-and-vim.png
I think it's just part of the culture for emacsers (and lispers) to add the features they want rather than bitching about what they don't have, but I agree that it is not a compelling argument for a new user.