ActualVim

https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim It's not just "literally use Neovim as the editing engine", I've tried to make editing the text in "Sublime Mode" work too, including running Sublime plugins. Work in progress, but afaik the most complete Vim integration for an existing editor. Waiting on updates to both Neovim and Sublime Text to polish it a bit more. VSCodeVim is using it as a reference for some of their new work as well.

Self-plug: https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim uses NeoVIM to give you every Vim command/motion in Sublime, and some of the Vim UI (waiting on Sublime/Neovim changes for the rest). VSCodeVim is using it as a reference to drive part of their roadmap.

https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim gives you neovim inside Sublime Text, altho I haven't tried it. I couldn't stand IdeaVim, the one for the Jetbrains IntelliJ platform - felt very buggy. Such as when you open a modal and it remains in Normal mode so you can't enter text. Currently using https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim when using VSCode which is better but still got some rough edges. Despite a fair bit of use and study - mostly using neovim - I feel that I haven't got as much from vim as I'd expected or hoped. Switching from Normal to Insert mode - even when you get good at the one-time Normal mode commands - doesn't always elegant. There's all sorts of configurations and plugins that try to plug the gaps, but it's such a huge effort to assemble them all. For example, just installed https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors to

Neat, for those unfamiliar as I was: > Actual uses an embedded Neovim instance to accurately manipulate each Sublime Text buffer as though you were editing the text directly in vim, without breaking any Sublime Text features (aside from multiple selection for now). https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim

> there are virtually no vim mode plugins for popular editors which offer a complete set of vim features I'm aiming to change that: https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim NeoVim needs a bit more remote UI work to enable every Vim feature, but it's still very powerful to embed right now.

For vim users, there's also the ActualVim[1] plugin, which uses neovim's headless mode for processing. I've always been somewhat disappointed by vintage mode / vintageous in ST, and while ActualVim still has some issues, it's definitely promising. (It even works on Windows now! Though I couldn't quite get my plugins running yet) [1]: https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim