I switched computers and operating systems a lot during the last 18 months. On every new system, I first install Vim (then comes SVN and coding environment). Vim, however, is a constant factor I cannot live without (well, I can, but I don’t like it).

Aside from being available on every platform I use (and some others), it is a huge timesaver. search/replace over several open files using regular expression is great ( :argdo %s/foo/bar/gce | update ). Repeating the last used command with the “dot” is a feature I miss everytime I have to use another editor. Folding and syntax-highlighting are common to many editors, but the automatic indention during typing allows me to write code much faster.

Fantastic program!