Text editor problems: I don't like emacs, vim or pico, and I definitely don't want a graphical thing like gEdit. What to do?

Of course, the evil one whispers in my ear: Write your own, you can do it.

But when I think rationally about it, I don't think I could write a text editor that:

1. Runs in an x-term.
2. Starts fast (like vim).
3. Does syntax highlighting for Python, C, PHP, bash and preferably more.
4. Does auto-indentation like emacs python-mode (and other programming modes).
5. Uses emacs-like commands.
6. Is extensible in Python (not essential, and could be another language).
7. Is GPL, or at least DFSG.

At least not well. I probably could manage items 1 and 7, but hey... :)

Thus, I'm beginning a search for my next text editor. We'll see what I find.

Comments?