If it's not VIM it's shit

I've just discovered that VIM is pretty powerful, has numerous IDE-like features, and is extremely customizable. Fuck Emacs, Gedit, Notepad++, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Xcode, etc.

I've been writing software for over a decade and I have used everything listed above but I always thought of VI/VIM as merely a simple line editor. Why didn't anyone tell me about how awesome VIM truly is?

Vim is nice except THE FORCED USE OF MODES.