>> Oh, Vim is an OK text editor. It's just not that fantastic...
> 
> Well yes, it's not an operating system ;-)
> 
> I don't know, what feature(s) do you miss?
> 
> I'm fairly certain I'm using Vim at a fraction of its capacity, so I 
> don't feel any incentive to move, personally...

Well, you know, it's a text-mode editor. I guess by definition that 
places rather strong limits on what useful things it can do. For example,

- You can't click on where you want the cursor to move to. You must 
manually move the cursor around using several million arrow key presses.

- You can't cut and paste blocks of text.

- You can't change the display to fit more than 80 characters on the screen.

- You can't have multiple files open at once. (Well, unless you count 
using virtual terminals.)

- You can't realistically do syntax hilighting. (Well, again, I suppose 
theoretically you could - but with only 8 colours available, how good is 
that going to look?)

It's not that Vim is a bad product - I'm not sure how any possible 
text-mode program could possibly overcome these limitations. They seem 
to be inherant in the description "text-mode program" rather than 
specific to Vim itself...

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