Oh, not sure how I missed this! I'll have to try it out

EDIT: On trying it out, it seems to have reasonable support for most of the editing functionality, but the shortcuts for handling split buffers (C-x 0, C-x 1, C-x o, etc.) is completely non-existent. I'm unsure right now whether I'd be able to define them on mine own or whether I'd be willing to stick with it if I couldn't.

I didn't know this! I just created a few keyboard shortcuts that I commonly use manually. Not perfect but it's gotten me over the hump. I may check out the emacs bindings on a slow day.