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Comment by ben336 | Hacker News Reader

Sublime has very solid support for VI keybindings using a plugin that ships with the editor but is disabled by default.

If you are a regular vim user the keybindings in Sublime vintage mode aren't anywhere near adequate. It's more like a cute quirk than a real feature.

>If you are a regular vim user the keybindings in Sublime vintage mode aren't anywhere near adequate.

I find them perfectly fine, and have been using Vim since the mid-nineties, in things like SunOS and HPUX.

You don't have to take advantage of every key command Vim offers to be productive. In fact, focus on the code.

Sublime is missing support for vim actions when used in combination with / or ?

For example:

   d/abc (i.e. delete forward until the text 'abc')

   c/abc (i.e. change the text going forward until the text 'abc')

I can workaround most of the missing functionality, but this one is a deal breaker for me. Unfortunately since / just uses the built-in Find feature in Sublime, fixing this is probably non-trivial.

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