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I used vim for years, but then Sublime appeared.. although I miss the snappiness of vim, and wouldn't mind to come back. Specifically, I'd miss these nice features of Sublime:

1. Multiple cursors!! (and how easy is to use them)

2. Real-time preview of regex search

3. Package Manager (easy installation and discoverability of plugins)

4. Jump to file, jump to function, jump to css selector.. (ctrl+p, ctrl+r, using fuzzy search)

5. Project tree in small font (many files at sight)

Edit: Here there is a bunch of good stuff: https://medium.com/@huntie/10-essential-vim-plugins-for-2018...

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I've grown quite dependent on multiple cursors myself. Supposedly, Kakoune is a vim-like editor with good multiple cursors support.

http://kakoune.org/

Mmm.. I see there are also vim plugins for multiple cursors, like https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors ..

I've been using that for years after I switched to Vim from sublime. It has worked just fine for me.

Sublime is really nice, I bought a license for V2. But after a lot of radio silence from the dev, I realized I never want to invest years building muscle memory and becoming dependent on specific plugins only to potentially have it disappear one day. Proprietary software is just not a good option for fundamental tools like a text editor.

I'd say the tradeoffs are different rather than it never being a 'good option'. For me, paying for & using IntelliJ idea for most of my serious work has in practice been an excellent option for many years. It suits me & my working style in a way no open-source editors do. For that I'm trading the possibility that Jetbrains might die, or change its platform in a way I can't live with. In truth this has already paid off for me, regardless of what happens in the future. If I had to stop using it tomorrow it would have been well worth it.

1. Exists via plugin

2. Exists built in, but need to enable options

3. Exists if you install a plugin manager that has those features

4. Exists via plugin

5. Exists via plugin

> 2. Real-time preview of regex search

Doesn't vim have this by default these days?

Yeah, I think what they want are the options

  set hlsearch
  set incsearch

Oh, rings a bell.. :P thanks!

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