> vim et al are sorta on the verge of being irrelevant even deprecated because there are two things that are getting better: modern languages and IDE's.

I don't spend a ton of time coding any more but do spend a ton of time doing random text editing (properties files, XML, data manipulation, whatever). While I agree that modern IDEs are probably better if you're just doing straight coding I think there will always be a place for a high powered text editor.

Plus, if I'm editing a script on a remote host (random shell script) or just need to make a quick change to something locally then it's much faster/easier to drop into vim than to fire up an IDE.