I know people for whom Vim was overwhelming to learn and they gave up or didn't use it properly. I'm trying to make an terminal-based editor which gives them as much as possible of the power of Vim or Emacs, while making it dead simple to learn and use.

It's AWESOME.

I have used emacs, vim, micro-emacs, sublime, notepad++, wscite, etc etc. This might not be so feature rich, but in my first try, this felt just right!

This is great work. I hated the usability of both Vim and Emacs coming from a Windows background. I knew it could be more intuitive. You've definitely accomplished that. One problem I ran into is figuring out how to close current document but keep editor open. I didn't see it skimming help tutorial or help commands. In most editors, it's called "close" (with "quit" as separate option) or "new." I suggest adding that if the command doesn't exist or putting it in help near "save" and "quit" if it does exist.