Not trying to force either of those on you or anything like that, but just a quick remark: both Vim (although not vi) and Emacs have fully functional GUI “modes

Not trying to force either of those on you or anything like that, but just a quick remark: both Vim (although not vi) and Emacs have fully functional GUI “modes” (in fact, I think overwhelming majority of Vim/Emacs users use it in GUI mode). They might not look native in Windows though.