Why do we always put Vim bindings on a pedestal? It seldom makes sense - why hjkl and not ijkl? why u to undo but ctrl-Y to redo? -, it doesn't conform to modern conventions, and learning how to use it is a real uphill battle.
One of the more underrated features of Sublime Text is the Command Palette. Just by pressing ctrl+shift+p, you can access almost any command, without having to memorize some arcane shortcut key. It is an incredibly powerful feature - one that I really wished Vim had.
Agree.
BTW, the Ubuntu HUD does the same for any set of menus in a compatible application.
Hit Alt key, access all the menu commands.
No. This simply isn't true, Sublime Text 2 has one of the least complete examples of a "vi-mode" I have used. ViEMU, Emac's EVIL, XVim for Xcode, all seem much better thought out and break less muscle memory than Sublime Text 2's vi-bindings. Sublime Text 2 left out all of Ex... seriously.
The only major upside is that Sublime Text might have a 3rd party step in and fix its broken vi handling (someone started to do this with VintageEx).
Re:Just Use Sublime Text
by elliottlan on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:18AM
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Not exactly sublime text but check this out:
Most developers I know now know enough vim to use it in a pinch for editing on remote servers. What I'd really like to see to handle even this edge case is a browser implementation of Sublime. Now that would be cool.