Am I missing something here? Sublime's an editor last I checked. So's vim. If you want a vim-flavored editor, why not just, I dunno... use vim?
Wouldn't this be a bit like building a 'vim mode' for emacs?
Wouldn't this be a bit like building a 'vim mode' for emacs?
Evil mode is one of the better Vim emulation layers for non-Vim editors...and there are quite a few.
I just use vim inside tmux, but that's mostly because I have to write a significant amount of code on a remote machine via ssh.
Also, I will say that even as a dedicated vim user I wouldn't be thrilled to use vim without a large number of plugins that more or less just offer features something like Sublime Text can offer natively, like a decent file tree browser. So a vim mode in Sublime Text can make the barrier to entry lower by reducing the need for the modern programmer to load up vim with plugins.
My personal preference is vim in a quake-style terminal (yakuake on linux or iTerm2's hotkey window in OS X) with a minimal amount of transparency so that I can "read through" the terminal and see whatever's in the browser/document window behind. After getting this set up, it's going to take a lot for me to switch back to an IDE full time.
And yeah - gotta love screen/tmux.
I personally try to use a minimal number of plugins. Command-t is the only one I use daily. I gave eclim a shot for java stuff, but ultimately found I didn't use it very often. It's better to just not fight "the vim way," though I definitely see how that's a barrier.
My job forced me to get over that, and though I can still appreciate a good GUI-based editor I don't feel any need to switch to one anymore.
To some extent it is probably people not learning their new editor completely and another part is sometimes the vim-way is just easier/quicker.
Being able to escape insert mode and start modifying the text is great to a vim user things like editing inside quotes `ci"` are easy to do without a mouse, as is moving around the file without leaving home row.