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>are productivity killers

Don't state this as if it were fact. They're productivity killer for you. Because you have been using Vim for so long. A person who is balls deep familiar with Sublime Text 2 or Visual Studio will be just as fast due to experience.

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> A person who is balls deep familiar with Sublime Text 2 or Visual Studio will be just as fast due to experience.

I wouldn't state this as if it were fact either. The biggest gain for me is the ability to quickly and easily script my text editor to do tasks for me. Sublime Text 2 has a macro system, but it looks neither quick nor easy to write scripts for. Visual Studio looks like it no longer supports macros as of VS2012.

However, there's a huge leap in productivity between having an editor whose keybinds you know (and can use without a mouse), and one which you have extended with extensive macros. That's like the difference between an out-of-the-box Emacs and SLIME.

Your Vim setup is awesome, but for a newbie to vim like me, it'll take a long time before I'm more productive using it -- not only would I need to internalize the keybinds and text processing tools, but I would also then have to start adding custom scripts and stuff, in order to do other things. (run unit tests, evaluate a block of code in an interpreter, etc)

The comparison was between someone who is skilled at vim and someone who is skilled at Sublime Text 2. My argument is that the person using Sublime Text 2 wouldn't be as "fast" as the person using vim, not that the person who was skilled at Sublime Text 2 would be as fast as me using my VIM setup, which is what you're talking about. I agree, that would be a ridiculous argument.