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My main reason why, despite me loving Sublime Text, am not using it is because during their silent phase a ton of plugin developers jumped ship (me included).

Now crucial plugins like Vintageous (vim emulation) are dead and not being maintained anymore.

Then there are things that are still not possible, despite it being an issue for a long time. Stuff like relative line numbers and gutter plugins overriding each other constantly.

Currently I am still using VIM because it does exactly what I want it to do. I know what a keystroke does and why and am one line change away to optimize bad behaviour. But despite that, I have to say that vscode is currently probably the champ out there. You almost don't feel the electron overhead at all. It's blazing fast, intuitive and snappy with an active plugin ecosystem. I'm hoping to get a little bit of free time soon to port some of my vimrc to vscode.

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It's blazing fast, intuitive and snappy with an active plugin ecosystem.

I use VS Code quite a bit in my current role, and while I agree with most of what you just said, I do have to note that VS Code's startup time is noticeably longer than vim's. There's this weird interval where the window is up, but the editor tab hasn't loaded yet where the program seems unresponsive to input. Once everything is running, VS Code is fairly responsive, but that startup lag isn't something I see in vim.

I had forgotten about the "quiet time" of Sublime. It felt like a repeat of the Textmate downtime.

I had also forgotten about VSCode. I like having a GUI editor handy in my dock for quickly opening something drag-n-drop style. And most of the editors I can see in there right now are a little laggy (I'm looking at you Atom, and you, Brackets) so VSCode is now downloading for a quick test.

Waiting for the Emacs chorded key command for hacking your ocular nerve to capture which icon you are staying at to then open your file...

You're joking, but I recently thought about the idea that we could actually use the advent of cheap eye tracking software for gaming to write an EasyMotion-like plugin that moves the cursor to the position on the screen you're currently looking at.

For now, this will sadly likely keep to prove difficult since the driver situation on linux isn't really good yet.

Emacs will respond to a file's being dropped onto its dock icon (and the response can be whatever Lisp code you want) but of course there has to be an Emacs icon in the Dock, which means the Emacs cannot be running "inside" a terminal.

If you enable server-mode you can run gui emacs to get the icon in the doc and pop up a gui window when you drop something on it, while also connecting in a terminal.

Vintageous appears to have been abandoned by the author in favour of a commercial (i.e paid) alternative: http://www.sublimesix.com/index.html

Not available: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Six

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