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The thing that make vim useful for me is the regexes, particularly search and replace using backreferences and the configurable folding. It may be possible to do that stuff to the same degree in some other editors (i know people rave about emacs) but not as easily, if at all, in any of the windows gui ones I have tried such as notepad++ or ultra edit. There are certain sorts of logfiles I deal with where the usual reaction from other folk when they see what it can do is 'can you show me how to do that'. To quote Arthur C Clarke it is "indistinguishable from magic".
I'm sure other editors do proper regex searching - I recently learned how to use the (weird) implementation in Visual Studio and it can be amazing useful on occasion.
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