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It's been done in the form of an Emacs clone called Hemlock. Lispworks uses it for their IDE although they don't make enough of the source available to fully customize it. Clozure Common Lisp also uses Hemlock for their IDE on the Mac and its source is all in the box.

I don't think that's exactly what you asked, however, and I agree that a true Emacs running entirely on CL would be preferable.

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Source code of LW editor is mostly available. I’ve done some extensive modifications to it (implemented VIM mode), but these days I’ve moved back to Emacs- just something I prefer more

So have I but that "mostly" is my problem. Eventually I hit a wall beyond which I could not modify the editor's behavior.

I believe the Nyxt project is interested in adding editing at some point. There’s also Lem which is a terminal based Emacs.

GNU Emacs has by far the strongest community and ecosystem though.

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