I tried using pure vim. It's too cumbersome (Microsoft does pretty good job at "locking in" developers, e.g. - manual editing of solution files ain't what I'm l

I tried using pure vim. It's too cumbersome (Microsoft does pretty good job at "locking in" developers, e.g. - manual editing of solution files ain't what I'm lookin for). But there is awesome middle road. Try visual studio vim emulation layer called VsVim - http://bit.ly/e3GsMf http://bit.ly/e3GsMf It's far from being perfect, but it has most of the stuff.