Yes, I am well aware that I could remap everything. It's still not as malleable as I would like.

What exactly is missing? The tinymode, the tinykeymap (and others) plugins emulate some sort of temporary modes.

Rather than map over already-defined keys, it would be nice to have a clean slate to work from.

So, "I want cake! Ok, here is cake. No! I want it to be feed to me also."

Sometimes, you should accept the 80% (or 97% in this case) solution and not pine for 100%. Or, scratch your own itch instead of whining no one else is offering to.

> Or, scratch your own itch instead of whining no one else [who] is offering to.

I'm working on it, but these things take time.

I don't see how it hurts to express my thoughts here. I wasn't asking anyone to do anything, just expressing something that I want, in case it already exists, or there are others who share my desire for it.

So, you want an editor that doesn't do anything when you press a key? I'm not sure if such an app would have many users. :-)

You would define the behavior yourself, or (more likely) load a set of defined behavior.