vim, like emacs, is a programmable text editor. Maybe $your_favorite_ide totally outplays vim (or emacs) at some feature, or maybe someone has written a plugin

vim, like emacs, is a programmable text editor. Maybe $your_favorite_ide totally outplays vim (or emacs) at some feature, or maybe someone has written a plugin that has an equivalent (or better, or somewhat worse but acceptable) version of the feature, you'd have to look if that's your main criteria. But also note there are many plugins that don't exist in other editors, and of course for vim there's the various macros/functions/key maps that exist in users' memory or .vimrc files that they wrote themselves or got somewhere that solve all sorts of tasks, general and specific. Anyway, being programmable, you don't have to wish the makers of the editor made some feature you saw in some other editor, you can just program it (or convince someone in the community to do so), plus there's all the various tasks of text editing that really benefit from being able to automate something this one time. If you don't care about programmability of your editor, you're probably not missing anything.