How do I turn off COMMAND mode or VISUAL mode in Sublime?

Question

In Sublime Text 2, if I press escape the page goes into COMMAND mode, which seems to take text input as commands, rather than actually typing the text.

Another oddity is the VISUAL mode, and I have no idea what it does besides it seems to highlight text.

I think they came installed with the theme that I got, 'soda', maybe. Anyway, I searched and found out you can turn off COMMAND mode by pressing 'i'.

Regardless, both of these modes are extremely annoying, how do I get rid of them?

Answer 1

By default, sublime should ignore the vintage mode package. Right down the bottom of your default settings file change

"ignored_packages": []

to

"ignored_packages": ["Vintage"]

See: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html

Note: In this case you should be able to edit the sublime default but normally you would edit your user preference file.