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I'm just guessing here, but you can use all the Sublime Plugins and Key combos while in INSERT mode. The Vim Insert Mode is rather limiting since you're suppose

I'm just guessing here, but you can use all the Sublime Plugins and Key combos while in INSERT mode. The Vim Insert Mode is rather limiting since you're supposed to do mostly just typing in there. I always add the basic emacs keybindings to my vimrc so that I can jump by word, to the beginning of the line / the end or move by character, without leaving insert mode. I really don't like leaving insert mode for just 2 char movements. I know there's CMD-O for that, but I find it too cumbersome still. Apart from that, many people like the looks of Sublime, and (at least for me) the Sublime text view scrolls a lot better for large documents than either Vim, MacVim, or Emacs. Edit: I'm not a Sublime user, I switched from longtime Vim to Emacs + Evil a couple of months ago and couldn't be happier (well, I'd like better scrolling, but I mostly jump anyway)

recuter 13y ago
Vim can be setup to look and scroll exactly like Sublime, I recall a mapping where the key for 'go down a screen' is overridden with multiple 'go down 1 line' which makes it feel smooth. (I generally just go '{L,H,M}', 'z{t,m,b}') As for jumping around while in insert mode, I totally understand that instinct but it goes against the grain of Vim. Don't spend extra time in insert mode. I think the real problem with Vim is that you have to wrangle it with a lot of tweaks to make it sane and comfortable and that's a rabbit hole a lot of people (justifiably) don't want to go down. Sublime is very friendly, I like it a lot, Vim demands a long weekend of your life to customize but it really does leapfrog everything once you get it right.