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The Vim plugin in VSCode is the thing that drives me out of VSCode, to be honest.

I have to say that I built so much muscle memory in those years that it is kinda hard to realized I'm not using Vim, and there is always something not-quite-like-vim in VSCode-vim that usually gets in my way.

(To be honest, the only editor that I found that is really close to Vim without being a Vim-thing was GNOME Builder.)

> its Vim plugin is better than that of Sublime

I'm pretty sure Sublime has a plugin that uses an actual NeoVim instance to process all inputs with all your configuration. Never tried it, I don't use Sublime. But I can confirm the feature works well in Firefox via FireNvim.

I think this is what vscode does as well. The magic is in how it cooperates with the GUI. All jumps and movements work, as well as search/replace and the hilighting and selections are even the native vscode hilights and selections so it's fluid going from mouse to vim and back. Last time I used Sublime (4+ years ago) there were a bunch of vim commands that didn't work.

Hermione Granger - muggle born with vested corporate interest