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Just installed it on ubuntu using sublime text 3 (installed from sublime-text_build-3047_amd64.deb). I get into vim mode when creating new files; however, when opening existing .py files on disk I don't get the vim editor.
Also can you check the console when opening a file to make sure there's no error?
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But this thing is Vim.
No, it connects to vim via vim's client server mechanism. The docs for it are wrong, because it will work on OS X if you have MacVim set as your default vim because MacVim is compiled with +server. Anyway, I am quite sure this thing will run into all kinds of trouble because of how broken vim is.
This is like using vim-mode on emacs.
In that case, you have at least Vintage, Vintageous, and my original project sublimevim (that was mostly a proof of concept before we had any of this) as "vim-mode" in Sublime Text.
Why wouldn't I just use Vim (or better yet, Emacs) in the first place?
Because you get all of the benefit of Sublime AND Vim. There's plenty of benefits to using Sublime over Vim, and vice-verse. This way you can have the best of both worlds. There are already Sublime plugins that do this, but they are kind of lackluster to be honest.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LightTable
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm (go to anything)
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I've said this elsewhere in this thread, but— With this you can use Sublime Text's UI (chrome, file browser, and smooth scrolling—all better than Vim's) with Vim's input mode. Best of both worlds.
There do seem to be things that Sublime does better, but some of us don't want chrome. I work mostly in terminals in ratpoison for a reason...
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The point of vim and its key bindings is to not have to use anything other than the keyboard (and keys that are not too off from the home row), so it's not the best of both worlds at all. Having to click on something forces someone to use their mouse, breaking their concentration and wasting time on clicking on a tab.
Having to click on something is different from being able to click on something. Vim doesn't let you use one of the two primary input tools of your computer--Sublime lets you use both. To borrow your situation, if you are already using the mouse it's distracting to have to use the keyboard.
Why wouldn't I just use Vim (or better yet, Emacs) in the first place?
This works using Vim's NetBeans control protocol (inside Vim, do `:help netbeans` to get an overview. Also see the VimSocket class in vim.py) and minimal help from a simple VT100 emulator I wrote (found in term.py).
Open the command panel (cmd|ctrl+shift+p) and run the "ActualVim: Monitor TTY" command if you want to see what's going on in the terminal for any open view.
I actually wrote the first Vim emulation mode in Sublime Text a couple years back ( https://github.com/lunixbochs/sublimevim ) that possibly inspired the other similar plugins. I consistently ran into enough unsupported motions with both my own and other plugins that I caved and wrote ActualVim.
Author here: This works using Vim's NetBeans control protocol (inside Vim, do `:help netbeans` to get an overview. Also see the VimSocket class in vim.py) and minimal help from a simple VT100 emulator I wrote (found in term.py). Open the command panel (cmd|ctrl+shift+p) and run the "ActualVim: Monitor TTY" command if you want to see what's going on in the terminal for any open view. I actually wrote the first Vim emu…
OT It's funny how conditioned I am to seeing __Beans and instantly dismissing it as something I can't be bothered to look into. Silly biased me; it looks like a really powerful protocol.
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I have no idea how you make vim crash; usually it's because I attempt to search through a multigigabyte file or something. Vim may have many issues but stability is NOT one of them.
You are quite wrong, on any given day vim dev's mailing list has recent seg faults at the top of its list.
Vim's stability and the occurrence of certain seg faults in it may appear to be related, but it isn't proof one leads to the other just because it's on some list somewhere.
I consider the term 'stability' to be related to overall dependability. I depend on vim on a daily basis, as do others here. It's yet to let me down.