If your love with VIM grows founder and bigger than for emacs, you can set your terminal with VIM keys. Just put "set -o vim" on your .bashrc file and you will start to use VIM keybindings.
For those Linux users who think that shell is the most beautiful thing in the world, I've news for you. You can reach heaven with the Terminator console. Look for it in the Linux installers and you will reach Nirvana. Trust me, I know what I'm saying...