Sublime Text is awesome, but the article falls completely flat by mentioning stuff that's actually in vim and missing the parts that are not. 5. vim compat

Sublime Text is awesome, but the article falls completely flat by mentioning stuff that's actually in vim and missing the parts that are not. 5. vim compatability! > With a few tweaks, I was able to make it just like vim as far as I could tell It took me five seconds to hit walls and off-by-one issues revealing Vintage mode as a remote simulacrum of Vim. A look at the source confirmed that it's just a mode emulation and a small bunch of keybindings, a far cry from the notion of text objects which makes Vim what it is. I am a vim user, but I use ST without Vintage because the impedance mismatch is too big. > minus some :commands Author doesn't mention VintageEx. Still thouroughly lacking, even for basic stuff. 4. Powerful Keybindings in JSON and Plugins in Python :help index lists default keybindings :verbose map lists all set keybindings, what they do and where they've been set. With Vim (vim --version will tell you), depending on compilation options, you can write plugins in various languages (python, perl, ruby, lua, tcl...), not just vimscript. hot-load: :source ~/.vimrc or whatever other file. 3. Package Manager and the More Centralized Community vim.org/scripts[0] is the central place to look for. Pathogen and Vundle fix that. Package Control give you a central, automated and in-editor index, which I'm not sure is a real plus since I care about installing plugins once in a blue moon, so that's merely a convenience. Besides I've had Package Control bork ST more than once on upgrades (either of ST or of itself), so I'd rather have it outside. 2. Project Sessions :mksession is what you want. Bind it to a key[1], or be creative in your vimrc. Also, automatic restore[2] when there's one around and you boot with just vim in the project directory. 1. Ctrl+P - GotoAnything: For the function mentioned (fuzzy search for files), there's a plugin of the same name. The author again fails to mention what makes Sublime Text supposedly stand apart: Go To Anything goes to anything, not just files, so symbols (with @symbol) and lines (with :linenum) are reachable from a single shortcut. I don't want to sound mean, ST rocks and has a number of good things I miss in Vim, but they're not among this list. In fact it's good enough that I contemplated doing a real Vim mode with extensible text objects (hence why I looked at the Vintage source). [0]: http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php [1]: https://github.com/lloeki/vimfiles/blob/master/rc#L158 https://github.com/lloeki/vimfiles/blob/master/rc#L158 [2]: https://github.com/lloeki/vimfiles/blob/master/rc#L257 https://github.com/lloeki/vimfiles/blob/master/rc#L257