One thing I like about Vim which I'm not sure I have seen anyone else posted about here is that I can log into my remote VPS and have access to much of my development stack over the internetz. This is important to me because I live in the Philippines and my internet connection is relatively slow. It's good enough to get a solid terminal connection but downloading a large bundle of files could take days. So, I just log into my VPS, fire up Vim and if I need to get access to large number of files then I can quickly get them with Wget (obviously my server has a much faster connection speed than I do.) Also, if I get hit with a power outage I can hit an internet cafe (powered by generator) and get access to that same development stack no matter which computer I'm using.