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Is a term-based Sublime-text possible?

#1

Sublime is all I want - except for the dependency on windows (I mean, not Windows)

I got lightweight virtual machines & distant servers, everything accessed through ssh
So use Vim and I like it for being terminal-based and powerful, but its key bindings are really too clunky, and I miss the multi-edit of Sublime.

So I wondered :
0. Are Sublime and Vim close enough in philosophy and structure to try mixing them ?

  1. Which feature of Sublime is actually totally dependant on having graphical windows ?

  2. Vim -> Sublime
    how much work would it be to define a vim setting that lets you use the Sublime key bindings
    and is it possible to have the really smart Sublime text manipulation functions

  3. Sublime -> Vim
    how much work would it be to output a terminal-based version of Sublime ?

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#2

IMO, no. Unless you use Sublime with Vintage Mode, then yes.

Actually, all of them.

[quote=“Tann”]2. Vim -> Sublime
how much work would it be to define a vim setting that lets you use the Sublime key bindings[/quote]

That’s rather easy.

There are Vim plug-ins for virtually all of them.

[quote=“Tann”]3. Sublime -> Vim
how much work would it be to output a terminal-based version of Sublime ?[/quote]

That’s impossible.

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#3

There is Limetext, but there are still no “Goto anything panel” and “Terminal frontend UI”

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#4

There is a terminal based clone of Sublime, which is based off Atom.

github.com/slap-editor/slap

It runs in NodeJS just like Atom. It can be a bit tricky to run depending on your distro and what version of node it wants to install.

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