[keeperofdakeys]

There is almost a nomadic pride in knowing the tool itself, and not a bunch of wrapper scripts around it. So if you find yourself on a different box, your 'productivity' isn't reduced as much. For editors such as vim, this really holds true, since it already has 99% of the features you really need built in.

[nathancahill]

Exactly, vim was the other tool I had in mind when I wrote that.