[jerf]

"Really? I'd like to see sublime handle text manipulations with the same efficiency and precision that Vim provides."

I think you've misunderstood the claim here. The claim was not that all existing GUI editors do all the things that all existing terminal editors do. The claim is that a GUI (not a GUI editor, just a GUI) can do everything a console can do, and then do more things besides.

The claim is obviously true, because a GUI can embed a terminal interface in itself, and then augment it. I use emacs that way. It's emacs, but it also can do buttons, menus, proportional fonts, etc. (... not that I use any of those things, but it can), and all sorts of things it can't do in terminal mode even though it's literally the same executable. The point is that the GUI environment is intrinsically more flexible because the GUI has a superset of capabilities, not that a traditionally-GUI-centric design with heavy mouse and menu usage is superior.