I was exactly there, after experimenting with someone else's CommonLisp and being amazed at how fast and concise the code was. Result: learned emacs. I have to

I was exactly there, after experimenting with someone else's CommonLisp and being amazed at how fast and concise the code was. Result: learned emacs. I have to say I don't regret a second of the weeks it took me to fully grasp it :D highly recommend going down the rabbit hole. I would recommend perhaps to start with Spacemacs though: everything is ready to do the job: just install the "layer" you want, in this case, Lisp, and you're set... if you don't like Vim just make sure to not choose "evil-mode" (Vim bindings on emacs) as I think that's what you get by default.