kakoune? it has its fair share of users, it addresses the only two gripes i had with the vim editing model: flips the action order to object->verb, and improves command discoverability
Damn, is it popular or is this one hell of a coincidence?
Ah, no, I meant `meow`, the Kakoune-inspired emacs plugin.
my bad! i might have to give emacs a fair shake at some point
You have #kakoune, there is no need. I tried Emacs out a while ago to see whether it could replace Kakoune (I wanted to draw arbitrary stuff like images, 3D views, etc., in the editor) but honestly, Kakoune makes everything so easy to integrate that it was hard for it to compete.