Was about to say that myself. How many programmers (especially Linux ones) use vim?
Out of the emulations I’ve seen, JetBrains one is perhaps the closest to real vim (albeit not without a few weird corners). If Pharo is so flexible and modular, wouldn’t it be quite easy to add official support for vim mode?
// I’m honestly baffled at why people who code for living often do not use vim keybindings for coding, but that’s a separate story
I've yet to use a Vim emulator that worked as well as Vim though. The amount of features in it are mind boggling and replicating that would be the work of a large fully funded team.
Even so, lots of people find emulators useful, especially in the context of an IDE that brings its own compelling features to the table. For years I used a commercial emulator in Visual Studio that was a huge boost to my productivity. It was the work of a sole developer.
And smalltalk does bring a lot of compelling features, as others here have noted.
(And some emulators are quite good, like evil-mode, which has converted some hard-core vimmers. Which also makes me wonder about implementing the core of emacs in smalltalk, making similar functions available, and extending it with smalltalk instead of elisp.)
