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Seamless integration into a Unix terminal environment is one of vim's biggest advantages. As an example, the ubiquitous plugin syntastic provides syntax checking for several dozen languages by simply passing your source through the respective command line interpreter and piping the error response back into vim.

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That's exactly what I mean - maybe you lose too much in Windows systems. (Emacs isolates you more from the OS, of course.)