Viper is a ViEditor emulation layer for EmacsEditor which gives you the worst of both worlds: All the awkwardness of Vi plus the bloat of Emacs...
See http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-20.5/html_node/viper/viper_1.html
I was joking... I doube this is of value to posterity. But whatever. --JesseMillikan
So was I, but now that it's here... -- DaveVoorhis