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>Emacs is a good example of a modeless editor
This is true only to a first approximation.  For example, the keystrokes
allowed after one has typed M-x and before one has typed RETURN have
different effects than the same keystrokes typed elsewhere.  Phrased
differently, there is a distinguished window for commands, just as
in vi.  At least in gnu emacs (though not in several other variants
of emacs) one can treat the M-x command line *mostly* like another
buffer...

The point here is that "modeless" is not well defined.  Followups to
some other newsgroup.