Comment by gkafkg8y8

I've loved and used Emacs for ~20 years, but if Emacs were to become slow, then if I were to have a replacement editor that could do the following (w/no X or window manager) without additional config in Linux, I'd use it instead:

  arrow keys to move
  add and delete text anywhere
  paste from terminal buffer
  ctrl-s -> search (and continue to find next match)
  ctrl-v -> down
  ctrl-esc -> up
  ctrl-k -> kill line
  ctrl-x ctrl-s -> save
  ctrl-x ctrl-c -> quit
  ctrl-a -> goto beginning of line
  ctrl-e -> goto end of line

I don't even use selection anymore, because I can just use the terminal window copy/paste.