The best text editor is the one which is easiest to do the desired tasks with. That does not mean everyone should be doing the laborious "move hand to mouse, d

The best text editor is the one which is easiest to do the desired tasks with. That does not mean everyone should be doing the laborious "move hand to mouse, do visual scan, click" loop several times to initiate every action, because that often ISN'T the shortest path from A to B. vim isn't unnecessarily complicated for the people who really need it. If you need to extend and automate and customize to any significant degree, you will need an editor which offers scripting that hooks into most of what it does, which is unavoidably more complicated than notepad. That is apart from matters of taste, which aren't a matter of complication so much as "I want to use multitouch gestures to perform editing tasks" or "I love LISP as a configuration language" or whatever.