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by sanityvampire 2835 days ago
>Vim's commands and keybingings interface (not the UI).

I recently decided to finally get good at Vim, but the UI, being text-only, can be charitably described as "awful."

Solution: Sublime Text 3 with the NeoVintageous[1] plugin. Takes a beautiful, highly customizable, extensible editor and adds most of the Vim bindings. I can do all of my main development work in a gorgeous editor, and when I have to hop onto an unfamiliar machine, I'm still good at using Vim.

[1] https://github.com/NeoVintageous/NeoVintageous
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canhascodez 2835 days ago
You may want to check out SpaceVim. I've been developing on a remote machine lately; before I was using ST2/3. I could have continued to do so using (e.g.) sshfs, but I think that I'm probably more productive this way. One of my favorite features so far is that the terminal is bound to SPC+', and that lets you easily yank and paste and navigate using the vim tools. It's not quite as pretty as ST or Atom. Powerline fonts and a 24-bit color terminal emulator are recommended.

https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim

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digilypse 2835 days ago
I will go far out of my way to avoid working with text in an editor without Vim keybinding options. Fortunately most editors (even Emacs) offer them.
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