Are they really, though? If you've put in the effort to learn Vim's command system (big if there), then they provide mostly the same things: - heavily centered

Are they really, though? If you've put in the effort to learn Vim's command system (big if there), then they provide mostly the same things: - heavily centered around document editing - encourage plugins over embedded features - very good regex find/replace - very good at editing massive files (the main failing of most other editors) They both have syntax highlighting for most languages. I admit that some features of N++ need plugins in vim, of course, like spellcheck. I generally do use them for pretty interchangable situations.