That's a neat way to think of it. Coming from the other direction, for emacs users, using the command line is like using the editor since the gnu readline lib offers keyboard navigation like emacs.
(global-set-key "\C-w" 'backward-kill-word)
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-k" 'kill-region)
(global-set-key "\C-c\C-k" 'kill-region)
;; https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/5jbvc3/kill_is_now_cc_ck_instead_of_cw/