I agree that they're usually sub-par, but it's telling that someone on every major IDE tries to address the lack of modal editing. Personally, when I'm using .

I agree that they're usually sub-par, but it's telling that someone on every major IDE tries to address the lack of modal editing. Personally, when I'm using .Net or Java, I tend to keep the IDE open and open up gVim along side it, since it's rare for me to need the text-munging capabilities of vim simultaneously with the boilerplate/intellisense features of the IDEs.