I've been using vim for decades and use evil/emacs now. It's simply not true that the vim modes outside of vim are critically lacking. In fact almost all of t

I've been using vim for decades and use evil/emacs now. It's simply not true that the vim modes outside of vim are critically lacking. In fact almost all of them support text objects and the other key parts of the vim editing experience that we are talking about here and they do it well. Some things like macros or perfect register support are not there (evil is pretty great though) but they generally have useful analogs. This is across multiple IDE emulations that I've used. What you said might have been true 6-7 years ago but is not true now.