I don’t want to advocate for you to use something that doesn’t fit your preferences but for the record Vim/NeoVim can work that way too. You can start it in In

I don’t want to advocate for you to use something that doesn’t fit your preferences but for the record Vim/NeoVim can work that way too. You can start it in Insert mode and you can have it stay in Insert mode as you run a single command using C-o. There’s also a plethora of Insert mode ctrl shortcuts which are worth learning in addition to Command mode stuff. If you’re on the emacs path you'll be able to do all the same stuff, just differently. The major point is that terminal based software is fully keyboard driven and you can commit the shortcuts to muscle memory and compose them.