I think JetBrains' IDEs are the best around. But I'm sorry, IdeaVim is not Vim. I've tried hard to use JetBrains' IDEs, having paid full-price for IntelliJ at

I think JetBrains' IDEs are the best around. But I'm sorry, IdeaVim is not Vim. I've tried hard to use JetBrains' IDEs, having paid full-price for IntelliJ at one point, and later RubyMine. And the thing that stopped me both times was IdeaVim not being good enough. It has reasonable functionality, but you can forget about using any standard Vim plugins, muscle memory gets confused when some things don't work, and it can really slow things down. Playing back macros (which it does at least support) can grind the editor to a halt. So I went back to Vim. Running NERDTree and most importantly NERDTreeTabs plugin. As well as other useful stuff like Ctrl-P. It's a good setup. Not perfect; it's still fundamentally a 30 year old editor and it seems like something's wrong not to be able to take advantage of all of the great features in IntelliJ's tools, but text editing is still the highest priority when coding.