[jinushaun]

The other advantage is having the same text editor on Windows, OS X and Linux. No more wishing you had TextMate in Windows, or Notepad++ in OS X.

[adiM]

Umm.. vim works fine on all platforms.

[LukaD]

Have you ever actually tried it on Windows? I use vim a lot on Linux but working with it on Windows is a nightmare.

[tomlu]

What's wrong with gVim? I have to have platform-specific font settings, but apart from that it's always worked a treat for me.

[richo]

Gvim always used to work fine for me when I was developing a C# system, the awkward thing was the naming conventions being broken for everything so I had to go on a renaming binge.

[piqufoh]

+1 for gVim working ok on Windows, it's the OS that's broken.