I was raised in vim and used to do the same when hacking Lisp but it got tedious after a while. Have you considered using viper mode in emacs (which makes emacs

I was raised in vim and used to do the same when hacking Lisp but it got tedious after a while. Have you considered using viper mode in emacs (which makes emacs behave like vi)? I've found that having an inferior Lisp to which you can easily send your code without pasting is a big time-saver.