The thing I like most about Vim are the shortcuts, advanced commands, and plugins that let me do things that no other text editor can do.

Vim is available anywhere and does anything. By taking an inconvenient perspective to text manipulation, vim unlocks several advanced techniques which are ultimately more effective than low hanging fruit.

Vim has an incredibly powerful plugin system, and every plugin you never knew you needed probably already exist. Due to the terminal interface, Vim can be customised by just editing your .vimrc, which can also be used to add command line functionality. I have never found anything quite as good as vim's %s (string replace) functionality, regex replace is a lifesaver in many situations, and not something that many other text editors have.