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Evil mode in emacs is pretty damned close. Biggest painful diff is that emacs regex isn’t as powerful as vim.

There is a package that uses python for regular expressions, which gives you the full pcre power: https://github.com/benma/visual-regexp-steroids.el/

"Vim mode" also means that keyboard interface is an afterthought in the editor. Whereas if you use a plugin for vim, it's guaranteed to have good keyboard integration and efficient keybindings.

k[letter] is part of Posix ex. nvi definitely supports it, so those IDEs are even more primitive than what you claim :)

Atom has one of the best Vim modes I've ever seen. I used it for about 2 years and it was totally a delight.

Emacs's Evil-mode lets you set marks with `mletter` and jump to a mark with `-letter (just like in Vim)

The VSCode Vim plugin supports block mode, but it's a bit buggy at times