Why not learn Emacs instead? Emacs is incredibly extensible, and has a big community writing things for it to make code management really easy (which seems like

Why not learn Emacs instead? Emacs is incredibly extensible, and has a big community writing things for it to make code management really easy (which seems like a concern for you). Vi/Vim has lots of this too, I'm sure, but for me it's a no brainer to use Emacs. Oh, and if you're curious about Vi, there's viper-mode for Emacs that acts like Vi (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViperMode http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViperMode). Edit: viper-mode acts like vi, not vim