I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio
Not to be overly pedantic, but your favorite IDE is Visual Studio, and you just happen to use whatever crappy editor component comes bundled with it.
If we could have full-blown Vim embedded inside IDEs instead of good-but-incomplete plugins which merely give you some of the key mappings, I'd be elated and couldn't see why anyone would stick with the Notepad-style editor which is the default.
I use Visual Studio with ViEmu and Visual Assist X.
While I really hated Visual Studio (and still do), this combination of tools really makes it worthwhile. It is an awesome marriage of a mediocre IDE, some substantial refinements to make it usable, and a phenomenal text editor. The nice thing about ViEmu is that is extremely full-featured. It even reads my entire .vimrc with all my customizations and personal magic!
So, I guess what I want to say is that instead of deciding between using an IDE and a text editor, you should actually use both! Real progress lies in synthesis, not analysis!
Not to be overly pedantic, but your favorite IDE is Visual Studio, and you just happen to use whatever crappy editor component comes bundled with it.
If we could have full-blown Vim embedded inside IDEs instead of good-but-incomplete plugins which merely give you some of the key mappings, I'd be elated and couldn't see why anyone would stick with the Notepad-style editor which is the default.