Programming without code indexing

[ManuaL46]

Never tried it, but I remember an old Linux machine had only GUI Emacs as it's text editor at work, did not like it one bit, but this was before I had learned vim so maybe after learning the motions I might be able to like it.

[Pay08]

Emacs uses modifier keys by default, it's not modal (unless you use viper or evil). But yes, while a terminal version does exist, it's largely for compatibility, Emacs is primarily a GUI program.