By chordal editing, I just meant pressing combinations of keys at the same time. Lots of editors support this to some degree, but most (AFAIK) are either modal,

By chordal editing, I just meant pressing combinations of keys at the same time. Lots of editors support this to some degree, but most (AFAIK) are either modal, or don't support keyboard-driven workflows. One of the other classic emacs jokes is about how it can take key-combinations to extremes, e.g. https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/ I agree that I'm looking for a tiling window manager. This is what EXWM (the Emacs X Window Manager) is. The problem with things like i3, is that it is not integrated enough with editing and navigation of files. I wish there was more in this space, as Emacs has some limitations for this purpose (e.g. multithreading), but AFAIK emacs stands alone.