bram85, 
Giving #meow a try, turns out I've been missing modal editing a bit. After all, I've used Vim for a longer time than #emacs so far.
Meow does not mimic the same keys as vim, which is OK since I've forgotten most of the keys anyway. Still it needs a bit of time to get used to.
One question though, how to move to a visual hint number >10?