[marklgr]

I also like and use tools like sed and awk; using the vim internal tools are very easy to learn if you come from there, and they have the advantage of being better suited for working with whole buffer (multilines, paragraphs etc.), instead of on a line-by-line basis.

I believe vim is a great editor for the kind of people who like sed, awk, and working from/with the shell, since it's pretty much the same culture.