Interesting article, I have always been interesting in moving to Vim, and this article all but sealed the deal for me. The only problem being I don't really see how useful this would be for general notepad usage. I understand the author of this article is selling his plugin for Visual Studio, and this is a marvellous way to do it. Is there any other way to integrate vim with Visual Studio 2008 without purchasing his ViEmu? I would love to start learning vim but I doubt a trial would be enough, and I don't see most of the other attributes he covered ('.' for example) being very useful in daily notetaking.