[throwaway27448]

> But I think that you've fundamentally misunderstood the appeal of Emacs. It has little to do with the key-bindings, or even any particular part of the user interface.

You mean the default keybindings for readline and macos? I think you're greatly overestimating the extent to which you can speak for other emacs users. I love the default keybindings and never even thought to change them, and I very much understand being leery of the lisp runtime. The modal editing of vim, doom etc always struck me as pointless typing and too much like issuing commands rather than making typing an extension of your fingers.

This isn't for me (electron—blah; I have microemacs etc), but I 100% get it.

[xigoi]

Vim keybindings are not optimized for typing, but for editing.

[skydhash]

Yeah! For typing, you could use cat and be done with it. But you think about editing, then ed(1) start to make sense. You think about it a little more and ex(1) makes sense. You want better visual feedback and vi(1) is born. And then you want more programming features and you’ll get vim.

Emacs is what you get when you sidestep the whole process with something as versatile as lisp. Instead of being economical with commands, you just create the specific actions you want

[throwaway27448]

I've found that it's not any better than emacs at this and you end up spending more brainpower and time issuing commands than editing, but of course YMMV. Plus it gives you cred with people who never learned to exit vi, which I suppose counts for something.

[kurouna]

Thank you!!! I'm so glad you said that.

"Making typing an extension of your fingers" is exactly what I was aiming for. I personally love the default Emacs keybindings and the "muscle memory" they provide, so I wanted to create a tool that focuses purely on that physical experience.