[smoothgrips]

I program in both Windows and Linux environments, Visual Studio for the former and Vim for the latter. When I transition from Windows to Linux (and thus VS to Vim), I realize how much more I enjoy Vim. Even with VS's fancy intellisense and other similar features, I'm still faster in Vim. And every time I learn a new trick, I like Vim even more. And I've only been using Vim for a few years. I wonder how much faster and better I'll be after five more years of using it.

[lucianp]

You should give a try to VsVim [1], a plugin for Visual Studio that provides Vim emulation. It supports a lot of features [2] and settings [3] and, most importantly, it is Open Source (it is also written in F#, which is nice).

It's always the first plugin I install in Visual Studio, I cannot work without it. It might not suit the needs of more advanced Vim users, though.

[1]. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...

[2]. https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/wiki/Supported-Features

[3]. https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/wiki/Settings-Reference