Totally agree with this. For me, editing is like using a musical instrument; you want to get to the point where you're not using much conscious thought to do t

Totally agree with this. For me, editing is like using a musical instrument; you want to get to the point where you're not using much conscious thought to do things quickly. How you do that doesn't really mater to much. Many years ago (10 maybe?) I switched to the Colemak layout to help with an RSI. That messes up the vi home row navigation keys. For a while I tried remapping jkl but since that's not very portable to other vi-like software on my own machine. I gave up and just used muscle memory for new locations of those keys. That works surprisingly well for me. I like Vim but I'm pretty sure that a competent emacs user would have very similar relationship with its keyboard interface.