I think there is a distinction between, say, ed or eclipse (to put it into the extremes). I also dislike IDEs like Eclipse and such (for various reasons, part b

I think there is a distinction between, say, ed or eclipse (to put it into the extremes). I also dislike IDEs like Eclipse and such (for various reasons, part being a lot of annoyance to get it to run properly on this box, part being slowness, part being a vim-user for a long time), but on the other hand, a vim with some plugins and the regular syntax highlighting and indenting for various langauges is very helpful, without really getting in your way.