While we're on the topic of other editors - I found an editor that I could customize to work exactly the way I want (https://howl.io https://howl.io). And yes,

While we're on the topic of other editors - I found an editor that I could customize to work exactly the way I want (https://howl.io https://howl.io). And yes, I've used Emacs and written elisp to try and do the same - it just wasn't friendly enough for me.