[lilc]

They do employ the author of Vim.

[pestaa]

It was surprising news to me, but I doubt this alone is a good reason to ditch the idea of a customised IDE.

For those who hasn't heard, this post is from Bram himself: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-in-labs-find-docs-... He seems to work for Gmail.