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  - syntax highlight
  - decent automatic indenting
  - semantic auto completion popup
  - on the fly compile
  - on the fly syntastic check(lint tool)
In vim, those settings are very sluggish in my old AMD 2 core 1Ghz cpu laptop. Sublime Text and Emacs both are quite reasonable.

I think vim could be more responsive.

This slow response problem is only reason for trying other editor. Please make this real.



Wanting the "engine" of emacs but the interface conventions of vim, I've been using emacs with Evil (https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home) a bit lately, and quite liking the combination. It implements a fairly good portion of vim, enough to cover just about everything I regularly use, which was a pleasant surprise (I'm used to "vim compatibility" layers usually being pretty shallow).


I don't use the last four of the features you're mentioning, but I can confirm indeed that syntax highlighting can make things terribly slow with large files and/or complex languages (I'm a Perl 6 guy), so yeah if multi-threading can help, I hope it gets implemented soon.




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