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I don't want to blow your mind or anything, but check out vintage (vi) mode for Sublime Text.

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html

Almost every editor/IDE around has a vi emulator. The problem is they never have all of vims features, and it doesn't take long until you discover <favorite feature x> is not there, and then the emulator is effectively worthless at that point.

True, but sublime's is pretty good. I'm a long time user of vim and though I've only used ST2's vim mode a little, it worked well.

I just tested and it even does the ci" ci( stuff right. It isn't VIM ofcourse so it can't do everything, but it's enough to get by either to use for just a little while or as a transition to a new editor.

My big complaint with ST2 is that the glibc we have at work is too old to run it. I tried to compile a newer glibc in a prefix, however the ABI changed between what we have and what ST2 needs, and the system ld-linux.so won't work with it.

I haven't figured out a way to have linux use a ld-linux.so in a prefix yet. I don't think it's possible :(

I remember feeling like sublime's vintage mode implemented some of the things from vim, but not enough of them to make me switch. Then again, if one is looking so hard for an application to imitate vim, why not just use the original?

Such plugins are addressed well in this article from earlier today: http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems

I tried vinzage, even added some extensions, but the subtle differences killed it for me.

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