[gen220]

To clarify, I don't think these (or any) features are "vim-only".

I was intending to say that it's the meta-feature of vim that vim-users find so sticky, that you can trivially write your own features: composing arbitrary executables and modal editing.

I think most editors nowadays are taking a page out of vim's book, by exposing increasingly lower-level interfaces to extension authors and users.

In these ways, I think editors are converging with vim, over time. Vim (and emacs) has been this way forever.

You don't have to wait for the editor-making company to accept that your strange request is valid, you can just hack it on yourself.

[greggman3]

I've had all those features in every editor I've used since the late 80s so no, no one is taking a page from vim or emacs.