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Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim (medium.com/programming-ideas-tutorial-an...)
5 points by bowyakka on March 19, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I started using Atom at work recently (I'm a vim aficionado), there are things that I wish vim could do, but the lack of modes and the (as of now) limited capabilities of vim-mode still make me want to go back. It's been the very same experience with previous editors like SublimeText or TextMate.

But I really wish someone could produce a modern (like Atom is modern) version of vim, I really do.


The composability of vi/vim is not only its power, but its weakness. It's like a non-redundant language in which (almost) everything can be validly interpreted leaving no room for error detection. In vim nearly everything can be interpreted as a command and executed (sometimes even without strong visual feedback to be noticed) which means a lot of rope for mistakes. And mistakes human do. And for (such imperfect) humans editors are.


Did the end of that article just imply that we need a new text editor? A Vim cross Emacs cross (Atom|Sublime|NPP|Etc.) editor?




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