Bill Joy, maker of Vi, was rather impressed by Emacs's input model in fact: > I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I

Bill Joy, maker of Vi, was rather impressed by Emacs's input model in fact: > I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS, though, is its programmability and the modelessness. Those are two ideas which never occurred to me. https://web.archive.org/web/20060701083055/http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060701083055/http://web.cecs.p... I am used to Emacs's parallel universe of keyboard shortcuts now, but I think you could make a good Emacs using standard Windows keybinds.