hahaha. I love this answer! So rob pike wanted a vim that used the mouse? did he follow the vim paradigm of having composable/repeatable/whatever you want to call vim commands (you know what I mean) or the emacs version of "oh, just throw a programming language in there and they'll be fine"? also is it modal like vim?

Finally, don't speak ill of the emacs, I've got it on my machine and I worry it's listening, I swear after I wrote that last lisp function I heard it whisper, I grow more afraid every day. it can hear us. we are not alone, I type three escapes and it merely laughs at my naivety these days.