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So, in a few thousand words, the author manages to give multiple reasons not to use Vim and not a single one to use Sublime Text, except this: > But Sublime ha
by gnuvince 12y ago
So, in a few thousand words, the author manages to give multiple reasons not to use Vim and not a single one to use Sublime Text, except this:
> But Sublime has things Vim can never have. It’s the new hotness and has a more active community than Vim does.
"Things Vim can never have"? Details please. "It's the new hotness"? Yeah, because I choose my software based on its hip factor rather than its suitability to do what I need.
- eudox 12y ago>It's the new hotness These people are the reason we are going to spend the next twenty years cleaning up after these two-week fad languages/frameworks.
- hazz 12y agoSublime Text is 6 years old. While not comparable to the age of vim or emacs, it's not exactly a "2 week fad" piece of software.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- ignu 12y ago"i love relearning a new editor every two years"
- yen223 12y agoWith Vim, you can spend two years learning an editor!
- coldtea 12y ago>"Things Vim can never have"? Details please. He gave several, did you read the article? A proper extension mechanism for one. A GUI that's not just monospaced fonts (or just some stylized buttons triggering functions, as Gvim, MacVim etc). Ans lots of other things. As a matter of fact, a team even started refactoring Vim itself a few months ago, because they feel the current code doesn't cut it and they want to have a codebase that can be properly extended and get rid of all the legacy cruft.