I've been using vim for about ten years now. A few of my favorite things about the editor: it features the best application navigation that I've ever been expos

I've been using vim for about ten years now. A few of my favorite things about the editor: it features the best application navigation that I've ever been exposed to (I also use vi-like navigation in readline, Firefox and mutt); it can open large files without breaking a sweat; it has a great many useful features for quickly modifying text (q, =, gq, cit, ci(, ci' etc) -- something I spend about 50 % of my time at work doing; it's almost always available, I merely download my settings and it feels like home; it features a great ui and I love how close the editor lives to the shell. The only thing I do not like about vim is that auto-indentation and syntax highlighting feel a bit "shaky". I find many of the editors mentioned here more consistent in that regard.