I just don't see anything beating out Vim. A good Emacs user might be able to get close, and get's a lot of other benefits, but I think Vim has editing nailed

I just don't see anything beating out Vim. A good Emacs user might be able to get close, and get's a lot of other benefits, but I think Vim has editing nailed for the keyboard. We will need a completely different interface for something to unseat Vim. Vintage mode in Sublime does add some Vim key bindings, but that doesn't get you Vim. It probably get's enough to satisfy someone who isn't very deep into Vim, but it will never get so far as the users who think in Vim. Also, I'm not sure that you can do everything in Sublime using only the keyboard, once you have to start messing with the mouse then you aren't doing things the Vim way anymore. Vim mode in Emacs (using Evil) is far better for me than Vim mode in Sublime. I have never understood the "looks" argument against Vim. It's text, it doesn't need to be pretty. You will see a lot of people say they are impressed with Sublime. I usually see that in response to people asking about editors other than Vim or Emacs. Others who ask aren't the people who are willing to put in the time to learn Emacs and Vim. I would agree with this, take away Vim and Emacs and Sublime is probably what I would be using. Emacs and Vim are open source, Sublime is not. Need I say more?