What follows is not a critique of Vim - I use Vim just as much as I use Sublime nowaday, if not more. I'm just stating why I found a case for Sublime. * * *

What follows is not a critique of Vim - I use Vim just as much as I use Sublime nowaday, if not more. I'm just stating why I found a case for Sublime. * * * I'm not implying that Vim mode is the same as Vim, it's not, not at all. But function-wise, I find most of what _I need_ right back into ST. Also, Vim doesn't quite have multi-cursor the way ST has it. I'm sure Vim has a plugin that does it, but then you have to install it manually or with Pathogen or Vundle - Sublime's Package Manager works way better in that case. The reason I favor a GUI over Vim's terminalish interface is that in Vim, everything has the same height and width: a char size. In Sublime, I can set my desktop manager to draw menus and stuff in super small points and keep the font of my code in a bigger point. The separator between two editor windows doesn't occupy a whole character width for itself. The status bar at the bottom as well. The autocompletion feature doesn't occupy an arbitrary character-sized space. Fuzzy search in Sublime is great. ST3 comes with `Goto Definition` which works great too, especially when you tell Sublime what you consider being your project. It's configurable in Python and JSON, which I find to be more readable than Vimscript and Elisp. Its fancy design calms my need for artistic beauty, as non-hacker as this might sound. I like that it looks great. Finally, I write a lot of Go and GoSublime is just a killer plugin.