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by troyvit 1072 days ago
This sounds like a refutation, but it's also in the same spirit as the parent. "No need to deal with insane complexities, I'll stick with my simple editor." Whether that's vim or Sublime, that answer works, and that's pretty cool.
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Except that ST is not "simple" by any measure.

It uses the standard bindings I learned with Windows decades ago, and builds on that.

Vim forces me to change it all to the vim-like model.

It's about having to learn a new set of key bindings just for that program alone.

That makes sense, and I definitely wasn't trying to denigrate ST. Having not touched Windows since 2003, and having come from the vim world I had to learn a few aspects of Sublime to help my coworkers out, and just like you say, having to learn a new set of keybindings was a pain.