Emacs has a great vim emulation mode named evil-mode. Of course it is also trivial to extend. Here is an example of defining a custom operator for by using evil-define-operator:

(evil-define-operator evil-narrow-indirect (beg end type)
  "Indirectly narrow the region from BEG to END."
  (interactive "<R>")
  (evil-normal-state)
  (narrow-to-region-indirect beg end))

This macro is defining a procedure (evil-narrow-indirect) that takes the beginning and end points of a region that the current evil-mode operator is acting upon. This makes it easy to integrate with a lot of existing Emacs methods. Here I used narrow-to-region-indirect from another article here.

Now all that is left is to bind it to a key! I went with "m":

(define-key evil-normal-state-map "m" 'evil-narrow-indirect)
(define-key evil-visual-state-map "m" 'evil-narrow-indirect)

Eval these, and you have everything in place to say "mit" or "mi}", etc.