For me one of the draws to vim isn't vim in its bare state, but vim with my plugins of choice, and I have yet to find a vim emulation plugin that loads the vim

For me one of the draws to vim isn't vim in its bare state, but vim with my plugins of choice, and I have yet to find a vim emulation plugin that loads the vim runtime, with the exception being eclim for Eclipse; unfortunately, the vim-mode for eclim is just vim with a janky plugin, and the embedded mode doesn't work on OS X because MacVim can't be embedded the way vim-gtk can.