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I also used Textmate 1 for the better part of 5 years. After that I slowly migrated to Vim because I liked it's text selection / text movement language so much.

I also used Textmate 1 for the better part of 5 years. After that I slowly migrated to Vim because I liked it's text selection / text movement language so much. Now I guess I arrived, I'm rather fast with Vim. I took a long time (at least a couple of weeks) of continuously refining my MacVim until it's not so ugly anymore; in fact, I think it looks pretty good. Apart from that, I also played around with Sublime, and I like it a lot, I'm just so used to vim now.

fsckin 14y ago
I don't want to blow your mind or anything, but check out vintage (vi) mode for Sublime Text. http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html
- griffindy 14y ago
  I remember feeling like sublime's vintage mode implemented some of the things from vim, but not enough of them to make me switch. Then again, if one is looking so hard for an application to imitate vim, why not just use the original?
- city41 14y ago
  Almost every editor/IDE around has a vi emulator. The problem is they never have all of vims features, and it doesn't take long until you discover <favorite feature x> is not there, and then the emulator is effectively worthless at that point.
  - DigitalJack 14y ago
    True, but sublime's is pretty good. I'm a long time user of vim and though I've only used ST2's vim mode a little, it worked well. I just tested and it even does the ci" ci( stuff right. It isn't VIM ofcourse so it can't do everything, but it's enough to get by either to use for just a little while or as a transition to a new editor. My big complaint with ST2 is that the glibc we have at work is too old to run it. I tried to compile a newer glibc in a prefix, however the ABI changed between what we have and what ST2 needs, and the system ld-linux.so won't work with it. I haven't figured out a way to have linux use a ld-linux.so in a prefix yet. I don't think it's possible :(
- notJim 14y ago
  Such plugins are addressed well in this article from earlier today: http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems
- terhechte 14y ago
  I tried vinzage, even added some extensions, but the subtle differences killed it for me.

fsckin 14y ago

I don't want to blow your mind or anything, but check out vintage (vi) mode for Sublime Text. http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html

griffindy 14y ago
I remember feeling like sublime's vintage mode implemented some of the things from vim, but not enough of them to make me switch. Then again, if one is looking so hard for an application to imitate vim, why not just use the original?
city41 14y ago
Almost every editor/IDE around has a vi emulator. The problem is they never have all of vims features, and it doesn't take long until you discover <favorite feature x> is not there, and then the emulator is effectively worthless at that point.
- DigitalJack 14y ago
  True, but sublime's is pretty good. I'm a long time user of vim and though I've only used ST2's vim mode a little, it worked well. I just tested and it even does the ci" ci( stuff right. It isn't VIM ofcourse so it can't do everything, but it's enough to get by either to use for just a little while or as a transition to a new editor. My big complaint with ST2 is that the glibc we have at work is too old to run it. I tried to compile a newer glibc in a prefix, however the ABI changed between what we have and what ST2 needs, and the system ld-linux.so won't work with it. I haven't figured out a way to have linux use a ld-linux.so in a prefix yet. I don't think it's possible :(
notJim 14y ago
Such plugins are addressed well in this article from earlier today: http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems
terhechte 14y ago
I tried vinzage, even added some extensions, but the subtle differences killed it for me.