&quot;Really? I&#x27;d like to see sublime handle text manipulations with the same efficiency and precision that Vim provides.&quot;<p>I think you&#x27;ve misunderstood the claim here. The claim was not that all existing GUI editors do all the things that all existing terminal editors do. The claim is that a GUI (not a GUI <i>editor</i>, just a GUI) can do everything a console can do, <i>and then</i> do more things besides.<p>The claim is obviously true, because a GUI can embed a terminal interface in itself, <i>and then</i> augment it. I use emacs that way. It&#x27;s emacs, but it also can do buttons, menus, proportional fonts, etc. (... not that I <i>use</i> any of those things, but it <i>can</i>), and all sorts of things it can&#x27;t do in terminal mode even though it&#x27;s literally the same executable. The point is that the GUI environment is intrinsically more flexible because the GUI has a superset of capabilities, not that a traditionally-GUI-centric design with heavy mouse and menu usage is superior.