Untrue! I know "kernel people" who use Vim, too! :-) However, my impression is most of them edit code in MSVC, build with the DDK tools, and debug with windbg/

Untrue! I know "kernel people" who use Vim, too! :-) However, my impression is most of them edit code in MSVC, build with the DDK tools, and debug with windbg/ntsd/kd like most other driver developers.