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The real alternative (and what all these editors are based on) is Emacs. Take the plunge. You won't regret it.

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Or if you do regret it, try Vim :)

Both great tools

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The only vim implementation I would use now is evil-mode for Emacs. You should try it too.

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Oh I have! Was very very nice. Got into lisp a bit, then gave it all up when something in the tower of babel broke in a subtle way and I realized I didn't need all the complexity.

Was super fun though. The experience is probably part of the reason I'm writing my own editor (in Lua).