Vintage

https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage ;)

While a couple of things are missing, mostly it's that things don't work properly. Some random things off the top of my head: * No block cursor (the block cursor plugin doesn't really work) * When you switch between files, it keeps jumping back to insert mode, but you don't immediately notice (especially since there is no block cursor). There's a setting, but I've never been able to make it work. * Autocomplete and the dot command don't work together * Macros are flakey * Visual mode and the dot command don't work well together Otherwise, here's the issue page: https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage/issues?state=open About 25% of those issues annoy me personally. There are a lot of commands that leave the cursor one off, which messes with my muscle memory.

You can find the dev branch of the vintage plugin here: https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage Also see https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx which adds the vim command line.

Fortunately, it's open-source so we have only ourselves to blame and absolutely nothing to complain about. https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage

There's no need to abandon something you've paid money for to utilise features which are otherwise free... http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage If you're fortunate enough to be using Sublime on OSX, finding a shortcut is easy as: 1. Opening the help menu - "Command-?" (Command-Shift-/) 2. Entering search terms Here's a screengrab of the process for your particular query (moving lines up): http://i.imgur.com/j226q.png And here's a screengrab of CheatSheet (http://cheatsheetapp.com), a utility for quickly reviewing shortcuts in any OSX app, being applied to Sublime: http://i.imgur.com/HPUB4.png Alternatives for these are available for other platforms, should you not be using OSX. Seek and you shall find :)

Sublime Text 2 has both a Python API and a plugin that makes it act sort of like VIM. Frankly, the plugin is pretty bad if you're used to VIM, but there's active development on it (it's open source [1]), and it's apparently good enough for many people. If you want to try this out, there's also a plugin that gives you an Ex-Mode [2], which I gather is something VIM users might want (I'm frankly not sure what it is.) [1]: https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage [2]: https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx

The Vintage package (vi editing for Sublime Text 2) is now also on GitHub: https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage