I learned to program on vim originally, and I've also worked for over a year on a C team that used vim exclusively. I'd like to think that I know most of its im

I learned to program on vim originally, and I've also worked for over a year on a C team that used vim exclusively. I'd like to think that I know most of its important features, and I know what I'm giving up when I using an emulator. I've also looked into the running vim with headless Eclipse, so I know the tradeoffs there as well. You're right that I don't know a lot about Emacs. In this thread in particular I've learned about CEDET and flymake-mode, which seem to apply to C/C++ and maybe Java and C# to some extent and add a lot of useful IDE-like features.