Comment by skydhash

I made the switch from notepad++/sublime (even atom did not exist at the time). The plus side was quick editing. Most of the time you spend on a code is rewriting it (excluding reading it) and vim binding made that a breeze. And even tools provided by IDEs can be great for code massaging, VIM is still king for raw editing. And if you know the shell, you don’t miss much from IDEs.

Nowadays, I’m exploring emacs because of how easy it is to build tools in it. Vim is great for working on text, but emacs is great for creating tools that work on text.