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I still can't find a good reason to switch from Vim.

I'm in the same boat. I've used vim for a while now and I'm faster at a couple of small things. So much so that Sublime feels slower to me. (Having to take my hand off the mouse to do a two handed key combo. Or having to move my hands too far from the home keys to do a key combo.)

I spent some time last year using Sublime Text 2. [1] But I didn't get very far before I switched back to vim. My guess is that I'll have to unlearn my vim-ism or go all-in on vim and spend time practicing the more esoteric commands until they become second nature.

[1]: https://walledcity.com/supermighty/first-impression-sublime-...

Good. Vim is a great, extremely powerful tool. One of the things that I really couldn't stand about Sublime was that so many users were trying to make it more like Vim. I don't want to use Vim for my daily work. I want to use Sublime. Vim is free, if I wanted to use it for anything more that modifying conf files, I'd use it. But please, don't turn Sublime into Vim... we already have a GREAT Vim.

I agree. I do have a Sublime Text 2 license, but I miss modeful editing, ex, etc. I had used vintage mode for a while, but as usual with such emulations, you quickly run into annoyances.

The only thing that I found really attractive in Sublime Text 2 is Goto Anything. ctrlp.vim brings some of its advantages to vim.

Proper project management/find in files(project)/ctrlp is way slower.

Still, can't switch away from VIM :(

Well, for me the lack of multiple cursors as an app-level feature is my big pet hate with VIM.

You don't really need multiple cursors in vim. Visual mode is much more powerful than dropping a bunch of cursors at the right places in lines or blocks of text, and if that's not enough, :s commands handle pretty much every usecase. If you're _still_ unsatisfied and want some corner case that's best satisfied by multiple cursors, then you can use the plugin. I installed it thinking it might be useful, but I still haven't found a use case where I prefer multiple cursors to visual mode or ex commands.

I'm the same. Is it ridiculous that I bought ST just because I wanted a new toy to play with, knowing that I wouldn't switch from vim?

Yes, considering it has one of the least annoying trial versions ever (I believe it pops up a message every 50? or so saves, and otherwise is exactly like the paid version)

I gave them my money because I like what they are doing, not because I found their message annoying.

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