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Someone has taught Emacs how to converse in the language of vim: http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home Believe it or not, Emacs is quite a fluent speaker. I was surprised to find that even esoteric things like rectangle selections work perfectly and :%s incrementally showing the results of your search and replace as you type is a hoot. Sure, emacs has its own accent and quirks, but after using emacs+evil as my only text editor for the last year, I'm now convinced that emacs is a better "vim" than vim itself is. I could go on and on about how using evil+emacs brings vim keybindings to my editor, mail client, music player, IM client, etc which vim could never provide. I could talk about how wonderfully extensible elisp is for hacking up Emacs' core internals. But at the end of the day, I only use emacs+evil because it's an environment that I'm comfortable with. If you have a few days/months/years to lose yourself down this rabbit hole, why not give it a try?