OK, I'm the grandparent post and I'll say it. You can have a vi-mode in Emacs and it is called evil-mode. Vim plugins obviously don't work, but there is a worl

OK, I'm the grandparent post and I'll say it. You can have a vi-mode in Emacs and it is called evil-mode. Vim plugins obviously don't work, but there is a world of Emacs libraries and you can now extend your editor in lisp. There are still some inconstancies that bother me (e.g. special buffers that don't respect vim shortcuts), but overall I'm happy.