[ddoolin]

I get the exact opposite sentiment reading in this thread. Everybody seems to think vi/Emacs are perfectly superior to graphical editors.

I honestly _cannot_ believe people are still writing posts like the OP did. It's getting so old to even talk about it. Yeah yeah, nobody ever said Atom would replace vi or Emacs. They'll live forever...we get it.

[sofal]

You don't get it. We don't necessarily want vim to live forever. We'd love for another editor to come along and eat vim's lunch. It's just that in order to do that it needs to take the lessons that vim has taught to heart.

[mpyne]

Same here.

I keep hoping a better Vim will come alone. KDE's Kate gets closer as its Vi bindings improve, but it's still a big enough uncanny valley that I can't switch over (and I'm a KDE dev!).

[meowface]

I understand this sentiment, but is there really a way to do this without simply recreating or emulating vim? I can't really think of a way to compose complex, precise actions ("delete the next 4 lines", "undo changes on this line") purely with mouse clicks or swipes like you can with keystrokes.

Every GUI text editor requires a combination of a cursor and keystrokes to accomplish things like this, and they probably will for a very long time.

[sofal]

A text editor that can replace vim would definitely be very much like vim, and it would probably be modal and have very similar if not the same command set. This would be no more a 'recreation' of vim than other text editors today would be recreations of each other just because they all come with very similar actions, commands, and features.