1. works in various Os 2. light weight 3. great shortcuts

1. Search and replace is very efficient. 2. split screen into 2 so you can view multiple files at a time

What I like about Vim is that it's very lightweight and very customisable because of it's plugins. It also has support for code highlighting for various languages, skins and themes if you are into customisation. And because it is lightweight, it consumes just a little bit of your memory. THere's a ton of plugins that you can use that could be provided with by plugin bundlers like Vundle and the others.