I'd recommend using evil-mode. It'll give you the stock vim keystrokes and the command prompt (ie. what you get when you press the : key). I was tempted to sa

I'd recommend using evil-mode. It'll give you the stock vim keystrokes and the command prompt (ie. what you get when you press the : key). I was tempted to say "just use evil-mode", but it's really not "just" a matter of using it. evil-mode doesn't get you everything, as many Emacs modes just don't have vim-like bindings, and you'll either need to rebind them all yourself to something that makes sense for you (which is what I did, and I recommend creating lots of hydras to help you remember everything that's available), or you can use something like Spacemacs or Doom which will set up sane defaults for a lot of modes. I've never used Spacemacs or Doom myself, but I've heard good things about both.. and bad things about Spacemacs, and how Doom is supposed to be an improvement on Spacemacs.. but as I've not used either I can't really comment on how accurate those claims are. I'd suggest doing your own research on those, or maybe someone here can comment on them. Also, I'd recommend joining #evil-mode on the Frenode IRC network, the Emacs subreddit, and the Emacs StackExchange. You can get all of your questions answered there, and learn a ton about Emacs by reading these.