No, it has no chance of replacing Vim because it doesn't run in the terminal and it doesn't come out of the box on most *nix systems. Initially I don't like the title, because it is too vague.
The author gave out his naivete here: "Textadept is easily on par with Vim, Emacs and ST." I'm sorry, I know nothing about Textadept, but if Sublime Text is on par with Vim and Emacs then I'm a hipster in love with Coldplay.
Anyone still willing to change editors has not yet put much of a worthwhile investment of time in a good one. Choosing an editor is probably a lot like finding a soulmate.
I wish jps (ST developer) was more responsive. There are many small bugs and inconsistencies that are dragged through the versions, even the new beta. A centralized bug tracker would be a great first step. Submit a bug, have it acknowleged by jps, track its status. At the moment, you have no idea if jps even knows of a bug. Docs are also generally poor. apart from that, I really love ST, and I cannot see anything Textadept has that would make me switch.
nothing, i repeat, NOTHING can replace vim. Learn to use it, and you feel so superior to everybody and everything around you, you might even kick walls and shopping-carts for using something different!<p>I am just kidding, but seriously, every time i read such "i found a vim replacement"-articles, it turns out the author was not really a vim power user. It's strange, i know.
Great! I will try it out. It uses lpeg based lexers and a Lua api. Now my daily (coding) work is 99% Lua coding, so I feel rather comfortable with it.<p>I also like the file chooser (I am on Mac OS X), much faster for me than the system wide.<p>That's my "first 4 minutes" impression.
I don't know if I am missing a setting, but here on Windows, it feels a bit like TextAdept is fighting a loosing battle with ClearType (as in, I almost feel I should be wearing 3D glasses).<p>On the wiki there was only one other theme available for the latest 6.3 release, so I tried an older Solarized theme, but TA crashes when I try to load it.<p>I feel having to press a keyboard shortcut to bring up the auto-complete menu is a step back in productivity compared to ST, but the built-in API help is a nice idea.
I see some incarnation of this story pop up every few weeks here on HN. Why do people have it in for Vim? Fast, stable, free, ubiquitous, crazy efficient -- I don't get why some people are on this mission to replace it. Hell, should you really decide to pay money for Vim you be supporting <i>orphans in Uganda</i>.