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I'd never heard of it either I use TextMate usually just having a quick look, for an Alpha, it's surprisingly polished:

* Initial theme is great

* Undo isn't character based

* Split screen/pane

* Top-right there is a cool preview of the document

* Cmd-R gives you quick access to methods in the current file

* Everything seems very quick & snappy and for the most part looks good especially for a cross-platform app.

On the less positive side:

* The fuzzy finder could be a little more relaxed (typing a few letters then a space will give you no results)

* Find files in project could do with a bit of UI (and I'm not sure it does replace as well)

* The project drawer looks like the sidebar in Finder rather than a proper file/directory view.

Really impressed though - definitely tempted to give it a go...

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Every emacs and vi user here just went down your checklist and said to themselves "I can do that" (okay, I'll cede the "initial theme" point)

Seriously folks, just learn one of those two, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to text editors.

Except for the mouse and the graphical user interface

Where did you get that idea?

emacs and vi are console based editors. I don't understand how anything could get to the point where it could never be made better.

In Sublime you can select text with your mouse and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.

>emacs and vi are console based editors.

Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui.

>In Sublime you can select text with your mouse

And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text, scroll with the mouse wheel, etc in a terminal window, particularly if you're editing a file on a remote machine.

>and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.

Depending on what 'graphical overview' means, it's almost a certainty that vim can do something similar. The only thing I can think of where that would not be the case is if you mean something like a thumbnail view of the whole document (can't see much use for that offhand, but maybe) [edit: I had a second look to see what you meant by that, and yeah it looks like that's one thing vim can't do].

Not sure if you're aware but it also has features like tabs, arbitrarily split screen, colouring (console version is limited to 256 colours unfortunately, not sure about gui [edit: gVim supports proper 24bit colours]) and numerous other features that you might only expect in a dedicated graphical application.

Having an (optional) gui is something "new". The parent post I was responding to asserted that there was nothing new in the editor space since emacs and vi.

I just opened vi on my machine and I was unable to select text. Maybe there's a way to get it to work... but in Sublime and other graphical editors it just works.

Thumbnail may have been a better word... Sublime has just that. I've found it useful when working on long files. But regardless, there are other features that a GUI enables, like code folding...

Gvim is probably what you're looking for. There's also an easy-to-use version called cream.

What makes you say a GUI is required for code folding? A screenshot of vim: https://blog.stefanpopp.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/vim7.p...

The fuzzy finder is very fast but it's missing a key thing from textmates fuzzy finder ( Command-T for vim is missing this as well ) that's a bias for close proximity of the character matches. shrb should match a file called shop.rb before a file called shops_controller.rb

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