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I use Vim with the Janus plugin. What I really like about Vim is its ability to be more powerful than any IDE if you take the time to write plugins to give yourself exactly what you need.

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I dispute this statement. Vim is more powerful for editing text than anything you will find in any IDE, including "vim modes". However, with or without plugins, it's not in the same league as an IDE like Eclipse when it comes to refactoring, error highlighting, automated imports, etc.

Now you can argue that many of these features are only necessary for languages like Java or C#, and that you can get by without them for everything else.

Eclipse et al might be more capable (and appropriate) for some tasks in some languages, but I'd say Vim is generally "more powerful".

I use vim because I love the raw editing power. I do use a handful of plugins (Fugitive is nothing short of amazing), and of course I've dialed in quite a few settings, but ubiquity and baseline power is my primary goal over customizability, if it were the other way around I would use emacs.

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