Ask HN? From Vim to Sublime 2

[dlikhten]

I've been using non-vi editors all my career. Last 3 months I started using VI and find it really hard to switch to another editor. I love the customizations that VI has, love the macros, I don't think of editing as movement of the cursor, its now like writing except the first writing tells you how to edit the actual words.

So I noticed people lovin' on Sublime 2. So my question is: has anyone made the switch of VI -> ST2 or have people just liked the shiny interface but disliked the actual editing itself?

[ohgodthecat3]

Well if you like modal editing you can use sublime text 2's built in vi emulation. So if you donwload sublime text 2 (you can try it without buying it) and in the user settings have

    {
        "ignored_packages": []
    }

You can use vi style modal editing with most if not all of your usually vi commands.

[dlikhten]

not happy there, its too quirky compared to real VI. That's the first thing I tried.

I really do miss using custom macros that do ',.' to swap between unit tests and production code. It feels forced.