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Other than the central repository (which vim does lack, there are quite a few plugins I'll admit), I don't see anything too different from vim, or am I just missing something. not trying to be mean spirited, just curious.

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You have almost everything VIM is awesome at + nicer non terminal based UI niceties. Plus its really really fast. You get the code wall, really good window manager, better project management and its also cross platform.

  Non Terminal Based UI Niceties: Use Gvim
  Cross Platform: So is vim/gvim. I use vim on Mac/Linux/Windows.

I love both vim and Sublime, so I would call 'Bodybagging' is flame-bait at best.

Gvim has a lot of awkward hangups, in my opinion. Selecting text is still weird, there's no context menu, etc. It's vim outside of a terminal, which is great, but most full-fledged graphical editors take better advantage of their environment than Gvim does.

I agree with gvim being a bit basic. If you're on OSX, I think MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/) is a much better choice. On Linux, I use terminal vim and rely on the terminal for environmental integration: you can choose from a dozen X terminals that will do almost anything you want.

Is the the central repository you're looking for?http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php

I know about vim scripts, I just don't think the process is as smooth as sublime's package control

This is true. Pathogen, a vim package manager, is mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

Although not as smooth as Pathogen, installing most vim scripts is as easy as extracting the download into your .vim directory.

Vundle works nicely as a package manager:

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle

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